Advice Quotes

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

Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.

Anonymous

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.

Sydney Smith

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

Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw Lec

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Montagu

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Marquis de la Grange

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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".

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Author Unknown

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Horace

Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs.

Konstantin Chernenko

If you wish good advice, consult an old man.

Romanian Prove

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

In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

George John Whyte - Melville

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.

Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

Some of the best advice I ever received was Man, that was terrible.

Tom Hanks

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

Author Unknown

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Cicero

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Frank Zappa

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

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Josh Billings

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Prove

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Never give advice in a crowd.

Arab Prove