Advice Quotes
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 good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.Anonymous
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
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.Sidney J. Harris
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.Anonymous
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
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
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.Romanian Prove
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
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.Josh Billings
Never give advice in a crowd.Arab Prove
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
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
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.English Prove
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.Aesop
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
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
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
For advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.J. R. R. Tolkien
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ask advice only of your equals.Danish Prove
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
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.Joseph Addison
My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.Socrates
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.John Churton Collins
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.Churton Collins
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
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974