Advice Quotes

John churton collins - to ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout...
Their plans were improved with the best advice.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
William shatner as kirk, in
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
Samuel taylor coleridge - advice is like snow the softer it falls, the...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Author Unknown
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
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Free advice is worth the price.
Robert Half
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Montagu
For advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. Tolkien
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Josh Billings
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
Romanian Prove
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
Never give advice unless asked.
German Prove
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.
Anonymous
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Anonymous
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
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
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish 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
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
Melissa Timberman
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
Author Unknown
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
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Lec
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Cicero
When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
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
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
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
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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