Quotes about Advice

You can always tell God how you feel and ask for His help and strength, but talking about negative feelings just to be talking does no good at all. The Bible instructs us not to speak with idle (inoperative, nonworking) words (see Matt. 12:36). If negative feelings persist, asking for prayer or seeking advice is a good thing, but once again I want to stress that talking just to be talking is useless.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

A word in season is most precious.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

Everyone who must contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. Only faith is to be taken seriously; and if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, that suffices for the devil to have lost his game.

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.

It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it's normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!