Advice Quotes

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The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one wants advice - - Only corroboration.
John Steinbeck
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
John Churton Collins
Stanislaw j. lec,
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
Horace
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Horace
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Brendan Francis
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
Rothschild
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron
Free advice is worth the price.
Robert Half
I have lived some thirty - Odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Henry David Thoreau
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.
Anonymous
When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
Romanian Prove
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
Author Unknown
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Time gives good advice.
Maltese Prove
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Montagu
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
Ellen Glasgow
Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
English Prove
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
John Churton Collins
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Never give advice unless asked.
German Prove
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Josh Billings
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
Robert Montgomery
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd