Advice Quotes

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example
La Rochefoucauld, FranÁois, duc de

Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
FranÁois La Rochefoucauld

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Adams, Jack

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

The worst men often give the best advice; our thoughts are better sometimes than our deeds.

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and deeper it sinks into the mind

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.







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