46 Inspiring Advice Quotes

In a world bustling with challenges and opportunities, a few words of wisdom can offer clarity and motivation to navigate life's journey. Whether it’s a gentle nudge to pursue your dreams, an encouraging reminder to embrace resilience, or a profound insight that shifts your perspective, advice can profoundly impact our lives. Here, we’ve assembled a curated collection of 46 inspiring advice quotes, each chosen for its ability to spark motivation, instill confidence, and ignite positive change. Let these nuggets of wisdom serve as your guide, providing both comfort and inspiration in moments of reflection or decision-making.

1. “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.” - John Boyle O'Reilly

2. “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.” - Douglas Adams

3. “When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.” - Al Franken

4. “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” - E.M. Forster

5. “If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.” - Charles Caleb Colton

6. “But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.” - C.S. Lewis

7. “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” - Theodore Roosevelt

8. “If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.” - Alan Rogers

9. “The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.” - Barbara Hambly

10. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” - Charles Dickens

11. “Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.” - Harlan Ellison

12. “Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.” - Lisa Kleypas

13. “Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.” - Brian Eno

14. “One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.” - Paulo Freire

15. “Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.” - Eugene Mirman

16. “I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.” - Holly Lisle

17. “Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.” - Neil Gaiman

18. “Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.” - Ptahhotep

19. “Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!” - Sarah Silverman

20. “It is the thinnest lines that define us.” - David Macinnis Gill

21. “Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

22. “I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.” - Ingrid Bergman

23. “Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.” - Jess C. Scott

24. “Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.” - Ron Chernow

25. “You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.” - Connie Brockway

26. “Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice.” - Tori Carrington

27. “Be happy without picking flaws.” - Victor Hugo

28. “When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.” - Mary Doria Russell

29. “Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score.” - William Shakespeare

30. “No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:Don't kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there's nothing in it.” - Ezra Pound

31. “Perhaps you should put your head down.” I knew this was the thing to do, although I’ve never fainted and I don’t intend to.” - Franny Billingsley

32. “An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

33. “The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.” - Teresa Mummert

34. “If you have to hit--hit low.” - Tamora Pierce

35. “At their core, Tiger Eyes, Forever..., and Sally J. Freeman are all books about teenage issues, but to an adult reader, the parents' story lines seem to almost overshadow their daughters. I'm bringing an entirely new set of experiences to these novels now, and my reward is a fresh set of story lines that i missed the first time around. I'm sure that in twenty or thirty years I'll read these books again and completely identify with all the grandparent characteristics. That's the wonderful thing about Judy Blume - you can revisit her stories at any stage in life and find a character who strikes a deep chord of recognition. I've been there, I'm in the middle of this, someday that'll be me. The same characters, yet somehow completely different. (Beth Kendrick)” - Jennifer O'Connell

36. “Do not be afraid. Look fear in the face and say, "fuck you" and move on.” - Annie Brewer

37. “Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.” - Alice McCall

38. “...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.” - Jenna Brooks

39. “It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

40. “Advice is bullshit. It's just one asshole's opinion.” - Justin Halpern

41. “Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.” - Tim Cowlishaw

42. “You cannot convince someone to see something that they do not want to see, no matter how much you know it would improve their lives. You have to love and accept them exactly as they are today. If you cannot do that, you have to let them go and find their own way, in their own time, if they ever choose to do so.Otherwise, you'll be giving them the power over your happiness, too.” - Doe Zantamata

43. “Merrill Krause - "My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me."Granny Lassiter - "Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family.” - Tracie Peterson

44. “Merrill Krause - You mentioned God's will for me. How will I know what that is, Father?Bogart Krause - I've always believed it to start with prayer. The Good Book says that if a man wants wisdom, he just has to ask. I would imagine it works the same way for womenfolk. If you want to know what God's plan is -- then I would ask Him. Couldn't hurt to search the Scriptures, too. And listen to what He is telling you inside. Even when you don't think you're hearing anything, keep listening.” - Tracie Peterson

45. “Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.” - John-Talmage Mathis

46. “... I will say this. Marriage is work. It's hard work. Harder than anything else you'll ever do. Believe me, I know. And do you want to know why?' James nodded and Ben Latrobe leaned forward as if to impart a deep, mysterious secret. 'Because marriage isn't about the wedding or the wedding trip afterward. It isn't about cozy nights spent in each other's arms or the way she makes you feel when she smiles. Oh, those things all have a part in it, but a very minor one. No, James, marriage is about sticking it out when it isn't so nice. Marriage is being there to pick up the pieces when your perfect world falls apart. It's seeing the mess you've made of things and being willing to work through it until you have created something better than you had before. It's listening to her fears, her troubles, and concerns. It's eating meals that don't taste as good as those your mother fixed, enduring her temperamental outburts and tears, and not giving up when things get hard.' Latrobe paused for a moment and a frown lined his face where the smile had been only moments before. 'True love is standing by your mate when his health fails, along with his business.' ... 'It's knowing that the world goes on and you can depend on each other even when everything else around you lies in ruins at your feet...” - Judith Pella Tracie Peterson