Advice Quotes

Pierre charron - the advice of friends must be received with a...
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
Romanian Prove
I have lived some thirty 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
Ellen glasgow - i agree with every word you write, and i can...
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
Anne tyler, celestial navigation, 1974 - it is very difficult to live among people you...
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 only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Prove
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
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.
Anonymous
Never give advice unless asked.
German Prove
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Author Unknown
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Cicero
Their plans were improved with the best advice.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Montagu
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon
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 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
I have found 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
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
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish 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
Free advice is worth the price.
Robert Half
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
Sidney J. Harris
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
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
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
American Prove
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
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Horace
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero