3,733 Quotes About Advice

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.

If you're bored, you're boring.

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

...[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.

Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George Michael lyrics, asshole. If they wanted that pep talk, they could just hang out inside a mall elevator.

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

...avoid – like the measles – phony laughter. No, really. If you don’t find it to be funny, don't laugh. More evil and injustice has gotten a foothold in this world because of polite, counterfeit laughter – a desire to not “offend”, or to not be “peculiar” - than anything else.But when you do laugh, let your belly shimmy.