Advice Quotes

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

The best careers advice to give to the young is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

Katharine Whitehorn

If you want a man to resolve upon following your advice, speak to him kindly.

Jean Guilbert

Give help rather than advice.

Luc De Vauvenargues

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

Advice is probably the only free thing which people won't take

Kaul, Lothar

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

La Rochefoucauld, FranÁois, duc de

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

Osler, Sir William

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Louisa May Alcott

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Callaghan

Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Horace

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Agatha Christie

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Edgar Watson Howe

I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde