Advice Quotes - Page 6

Hold yourself in great esteem.

Max sent Scottie some literary advice, the same dictum he gave every college student who called on him. He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing," he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

The Word of God, strengthen the spirit! Mediate on it daily!

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.

Great stories changed our heart and penetrated our soul.

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.

May we love another, for love is of God.

Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.

If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where working hard at it makes you happy, and where you're happy to work hard at it.

The strength of love is beyond measure.

Look here,” said Will. “When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn’twant advice. He wants me to agree with him. And if I want to keep his friendship I tell him his idea isfine and go ahead. But I like you and you’re a friend of my family, so I’m going to stick my neck out.

Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

Use your passion to create a job.

Negative thought saps a person’s strength.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think about those things that please you. You have only one life in this world: soon you'll reach your eternal rest.

We love certain people until death. We love others until we don’t. And sometimes we never fell in love in the first place. Falling in love isn’t necessary. Building character, life experience, development, and self-love: those are important. People get lost in the idea of affection for another person that they completely disregard themselves. That’s dangerous. Life isn’t about building something with someone. Life is about building something for yourself, but if someone comes along and they align, you share it with them.

Sometimes adversity becomes the fuel in which we run on.

Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.

This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) "Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls down and has no one to help them up." God didn't intend for us to do life alone. So let me ask you, who do you turn to when life hits you hard in the mouth? Your family? Some trusted friends? A teacher or coach? Are you building relationships today that will be there for you tomorrow when adversity comes your way? Do you have humility to look to others for strength and encouragement, or are you holding to the foolish pride that says, "I need to make it alone"?

Bless your mum, who carried you for nine months in her womb.

Be compassionate with all people.

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

The only education is enlightenment.

And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.

A single minded vision gives the strength of purpose.

May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

May my family, household and I be a devout God-fearing men and women.

Follow your intuition not other people's words

People who just float around in life without any direction will tell you that your dreams are not possible. Their knowledge is the perfect mirror of their results. Logic makes perfect sense.

We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.

I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn't matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame.

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust.

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

Is there any pure pleasure like praying?

The right time is now, pursue you dreams!

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

You never know what people live through. Be kind to all people.

I may not always be right, but when I am, I admit it

I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock and as he reached the climax of his exhortation a man in the front row got up and said 'O Lord use me. Use me O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Go forward and conquer any mountain on your path.

Be watchful of the dangers of pleasure.

You must not think sir to catch old birds with chaff.

If the path isn't in front of you, you can't choose to walk it." - Viriathus, Revelation

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;

I am a deeply uncertain individual. I often find myself acting like a fool to make the people around me laugh. When they’re laughing, they’re not watching me quite as closely. I smile to put people at ease. But what if I opened my mouth one day, spoke my actual thoughts, and the people glared at my opinions? What if they thought me disgusting or frightening or ugly because of my words? Would you keep your lips shut for the rest of your life to not face that judgment? Just for the sake of someone else’s comfort? For these strangers, who I will never know? If I can’t speak then I’ll write. These strangers, whose opinions crush me, will be forced to listen. Because when they read my words those words will make a home within their heads. They may even end up using my own opinions against me. But at least I’ll be hidden behind the pages of a book.

The best advice anyone has ever given me, was to never take advice from anyone.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Sacred-thoughts flashes in your mind at sacred-time. If you don’t write it immediately, it will be forgotten.