Advice Quotes - Page 27

• Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

  Steve Landesberg

  Funny, Sarcastic, Truth

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Work, Ifs

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.297, Courier Corporation

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• Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Work, Favors

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• My father passed on one important piece of relationship advice before he died.  He said son, in a relationship you can either be right or you can be happy.  You'll soon find out that you don't care that much about being right.

  Ralphie May

  Father, Son, Important

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• If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Business, Mean, Care

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.

  Theodore Levitt

  Business, Creative, Needs

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• If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

  Warren G. Bennis

  Change, Giving, Trying

  "Leadership: Sad Facts and Silver Linings" by Thomas J. Peters, hbr.org. December 2001.

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• Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Life, Confidence, Stars

  Nikolaj Velimirović (1916). “Serbia in Light and Darkness”

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• I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Men, Long

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 14 September 1773

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• My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

  Estelle Winwood

  Stars, Worry, Unhappy

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• Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, 4th Of July, Thee

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.287, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Anger

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• Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

  Ben Silbermann

  Business, Thinking, Giving

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• Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Happiness, Giving, People

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

  Friendship, Being Sad, Radiance

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• Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

  Leo Durocher

  Motivational, Teamwork, Sports

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• If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books

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• Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational, Baseball, Something New

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• I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

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• My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Important, Trying

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• To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Country, Men, Land

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• All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humility, Way, Speak

  Michel de Montaigne (2009). “Essays”, p.1603, The Floating Press

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• These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

  Confucius

  Humility, Order, Ideas

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• When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Giving, Treats

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