Advice Quotes

Konstantin chernenko - those who try to give us advice on matters of...
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange
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".
Author unknown - successful men follow the same advice they...
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
G. k. chesterton - i owe my success to having listened respectfully...
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Horace
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Prove
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Cicero
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Never give advice in a crowd.
Arab 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
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Montagu
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
Free advice is worth the price.
Robert Half
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
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
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Their plans were improved with the best advice.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish Prove
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
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 advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
John Churton Collins
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
For advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Lec
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
Sidney J. Harris
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
Time gives good advice.
Maltese Prove
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous