Quotes on Good Advice

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.

Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well).

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

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

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the air!" And as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.