119 Recommendation Quotes
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Famous Recommendation Quotes
The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself. — John James Audubon
To advise is not to compel. — Proverbs
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The best prescription is knowledge. — C. Everett Koop
Whatever advice you give, be short. — Horace
it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it. — Catherine the Great
It is advantageous to follow advice, for you will succeed in life. — Filipino Proverbs
Give help rather than advice. — Marquis De Vauvenargues
Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken. — William Osler
To advise is easier than to help. — Proverbs
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. — Virginia Woolf
Before taking advice, make sure they already have what you want. — Alex Hormozi
If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful. — Fred Astaire
Debate rather than dictate. — Naval Ravikant
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. — Harry S. Truman
Short Recommendation Quotes
- The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation. — W. Edwards Deming
- Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. — Aristotle
- I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. — Lord Chesterfield
- Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold! — Sally Kohn
- I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer. — Sophocles
- I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great! — Jennifer Lopez
- Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective. — Bill Nye
- The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation. — Elon Musk
- I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting. — William Powell
Good Recommendation Quotes
Most of the jobs you get are more or less through word of mouth, or a recommendation. It’s really important to have a good reputation. — Adam Grant
These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals. — Santiago Calatrava
I recommend everyone who DJs to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJs in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living. — Armin van Buuren
Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. — Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation. — Henry Fielding
A good face is the best letter of recommendation. — Elizabeth I
It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor. — Samuel Adams
My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others. — Edmund Burke
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. — Quentin Crisp
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. — Jim Butcher
Book Recommendation Quotes
But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I'd recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art. — Jay Shetty
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public. — Gavyn Davies
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. — William Ellery Channing
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny
For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the book "Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration." — Michelle Alexander
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books. — Sam Harris
i love girls under pressure but wouldn't recommend it to people who are under 10. i read it at the age of nine but my sister told me the bit u should never do. all in all, i loved this book and any jacqueline wilson fans over 10 i would recommend it to! — Jacqueline Wilson
New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals who have experienced them. This book is about achieving the highest dimensions of which humans are capable. Highly recommended. — Larry Dossey
The angels can sometimes come as wordless words as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again... — Doreen Virtue
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him. — Florence King
Business Recommendation Quotes
Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you. — Chip R. Bell
The Energy Bus serves as a force field to ward off any negativity that tries to infiltrate or enter your team or business. It made a big impact on our team. I recommend it highly! — Mark Richt
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. — Nassau William Senior
I will always recommend Goodwin & Thyne Properties to all my friends and business associates, thank you for going over and beyond the call of duty! — Andy Romano
Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business. — John Hutton
They always say that the entertainment and restaurant industries are the only businesses that don't sink during a depression or a recession. I've done both, and I recommend to anyone who wants to be a rock star, if that doesn't pan out, become a cook. — Chris Cornell
There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business. — David Bruce
I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts. — Douglas Wood
We exist to build the business of our clients. The recommendations we make to them should be the recommendations we would make if we owned their companies, without regard to our own short-term interest. This earns their respect, which is the greatest asset we can have. — David Ogilvy
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all. — Lord Chesterfield
Food Recommendation Quotes
We recommend calcium-rich foods like yogurt for strong teeth but the problem is that most yogurts have tons of added sugar—especially the ones marketed to children. — Mark Burhenne
I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them. — Jocko Willink
I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimun amounts, to supplement the vitamins you receive in your food. — Linus Pauling
Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it. — Martina Navratilova
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it. — Bill Watterson
The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters. — Groucho Marx
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend. — Thomas Jefferson
I'm completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated. — Bob Saget
I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his favorite food is, or most traumatic memory, etc. - that's always seemed like a fraudulent way of assembling a fictional person. — Teddy Wayne
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does. — Scott Adams
Job Recommendation Quotes
It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club. — David Moyes
In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace. — William C. Brown
If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews. — Alexandra Levit
Little projects - not feature - film projects - you know, theater things, writing things, and jobs like doing rewriting for money, stuff like that. I don't recommend it. It's not a schedule that I'd want, although it was really good for me in a lot of ways. I became a better writer. — Tamara Jenkins
I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ..."It's so surprising to me. — Winona Ryder
I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can. — Steve Spurrier
Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over. — John Stossel
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing! — Lydia Davis
I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography. — Gene Simmons
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 Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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 John James Audubon |
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 C. Everett Koop |
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 Horace |
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 Catherine the Great |
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More Recommendation Quotes
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar
I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity. — C. S. Lewis
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo. — J. Edgar Hoover
You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me. — James Stewart
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. — Carolyn Heilbrun
I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone. — Jeffrey Donovan
I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier. — Temple Grandin
Sometimes what's recommended to the people is something different than what's recommended to the leaders, because I have been recommended to use hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis and the probability of this harming you is very low. — Nayib Bukele
Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall. — Jocko Willink
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him. — Karl A. Menninger
Many of us have been told that drinking the diet option of soft drinks is better for us. After all, they often contain fewer calories - if any - and are low in sugar. However, I have always had reservations and have never recommended them to my patients. — Rangan Chatterjee
Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof. — Nathanael Greene
Fluoride is not a nutrient. It is a byproduct of the fertilizer phosphate industry. Many children now exceed the recommended daily intake. — Mark Burhenne
You can actually become a better person today if you follow the correct path. Contrarily, you can also become worse by doing the wrong things. The choice is yours. I recommend you get better. — Jocko Willink
The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it. — Stephen Breyer
Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. — Ina May Gaskin
My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed. — Babatunde Fashola
If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it. — Fritz Machlup
People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising. — Mark Zuckerberg
We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others. — Robert D. Hales
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. — Roald Dahl
Every customer interaction is a marketing opportunity. If you go above and beyond on the customer service side, people are much more likely to recommend you. — Stewart Butterfield
I can tell you I am not recommending pregnant women get the vaccine. We have no information on safety and we have no information on efficacy. It violates a simple medical practice principle, we don’t use things where we don’t have a signal of benefit or acceptable safety. We don’t do it. — Peter A. McCullough
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. — Thomas Malthus
When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary. — Connie Schultz
The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen. — Yuri Milner
We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday. — Peter Block
People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you. — George Whitefield
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored. — Soren Kierkegaard
Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary. — Alphonsus Liguori
May I give you some advice for you to put into practice daily? When your heart makes you feel those low cravings, say slowly to the Immaculate Virgin: Look on me with compassion. Don't abandon me. Don't abandon me, my Mother! - And recommend this prayer to others. — Josemaria Escriva
Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells. — Jay Leno
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. — Ludwig van Beethoven
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. — John Berryman
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