Suggestions Quotes

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, God, Society

  62 Copy quote

• Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Travel, Climbing, Dancing

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suggestion is a literary strategy.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Strategy

  5 Copy quote

• The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  123 Copy quote

• If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

  Keith Johnstone

  Funny, Ideas, Ironic

  81 Copy quote

• It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Advice, Trying, Easy

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Boy Scout

  "Aids to Scoutmastership: A Handbook for Scoutmasters on the Theory of Scout Training".

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

  Emile Coue

  Perseverance, Matter, Affirmation

  41 Copy quote

• I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Believe, Chocolate, Needs

  5 Copy quote

• Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

  Tryon Edwards

  Children, Book, Hands

  Tryon Edwards (1866). “World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry”, p.236

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.

  Gene Brown

  Intelligent, Trouble

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Sometimes

  5 Copy quote

• Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Ideas, Atmosphere, Difficult

  Patricia Wentworth (2016). “The Miss Silver Mysteries: Grey Mask, The Case Is Closed, and Lonesome Road”, p.361, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Teacher, Taught

  10 Copy quote

• Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Life, Nice, People

  8 Copy quote

• People make suggestions on what to say all the time... Trust me.

  George W. Bush

  People, Advice, Trust Me

  9 Copy quote

• I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

  Andy Warhol

  Money, People, Photographer

  10 Copy quote

• If you desire to find the true spirit of Christmas and partake of the sweetness of it, let me make this suggestion to you. During the hurry of the festive occasion of this Christmas season, find time to turn your heart to God. Perhaps in the quiet hours, and in a quiet place, and on your knees-alone or with loved ones-give thanks for the good things that have come to you, and ask that His Spirit might dwell in you as you earnestly strive to serve Him and keep His commandments. He will take you by the hand and His promises will be kept.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Christmas, Heart, Hands

  25 Copy quote

• Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

  Oren Arnold

  Christmas, Xmas, Tolerance

  29 Copy quote

• People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say ''Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.'' They're changed. Trust me.

  George W. Bush

  Ideas, Giving, People

  "THE 2000 CAMPAIGN; Excerpts From Interview With Bush on Campaign Issues and Election Strategy". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Thinking, Law

  12 Copy quote

• When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Children

  78 Copy quote

• Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Christian, Wise

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.77, Loyola Press

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

  Robert Townsend

  Artist, Looks, Paint

  Robert Townsend (1970). “Up The Organization”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

  Robert B. Parker

  Funny, Writing, People

  55 Copy quote