Advice Quotes

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Churton Collins

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

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

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

Solon

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

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Anonymous

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!

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

Joseph Addison

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

Unknown

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

Melissa Timberman

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

Norman Augustine

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge

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

Oscar Wilde

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

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

Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.

Anonymous

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 is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

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".

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

Eden Phillpotts

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

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

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

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Robert Lynd

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

Romanian Prove

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

Gordon R. Dickson

No one wants advice - - Only corroboration.

John Steinbeck