Advice Quotes

J. r. r. tolkien, lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring. - advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to...
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous
Ann landers - if i were asked to give what i consider the...
Some of the best advice I ever received was Man, that was terrible.
Tom Hanks
Norman augustine - if stock market experts were so expert, they...
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
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
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
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
Free advice is worth the price.
Robert Half
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
Romanian Prove
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
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
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
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
Their plans were improved with the best advice.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
For advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. Tolkien
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
Melissa Timberman
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
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
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
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!
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
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel
Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
English Prove
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Never give advice in a crowd.
Arab Prove
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
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
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
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Lec
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham