advice quotes

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Common sense is not so common.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.