Advice Quotes

G. k. chesterton - i owe my success to having listened respectfully...
German prove - never give advice unless asked....
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
Author Unknown
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish Prove
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.
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Horace
Anonymous - the best way to succeed in life is to act on the...
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
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
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Author Unknown
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
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
Proverbs 12: 15
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
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
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Prove
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Montagu
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
John Churton Collins
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
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
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
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
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
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Cicero
My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Some of the best advice I ever received was Man, that was terrible.
Tom Hanks