Advice Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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| Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. |
| - Aesop |
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| The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. |
| - Cicero |
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| A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. |
| - Bill Cosby |
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| Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. |
| - Philip K. Dick |
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| Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. |
| - Gordon R. Dickson |
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| People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. |
| - Brendan Francis |
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| Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. |
| - Sydney J. Harris |
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| A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. |
| - Edgar Watson Howe |
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| Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. |
| - Erica Jong |
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| Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. |
| - Erica Jong |
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| Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. |
| - Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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| Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. |
| - Mary Wortley Montagu |
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| Ask advice only of your equals. |
| - Danish Proverb |
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| Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. |
| - English Proverb |
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| Never give advice unless asked. |
| - German Proverb |
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| Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. |
| - Spanish Proverb |
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| Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. |
| - Henry Wheeler Shaw |
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| 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 |
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| No one wants advice - only corroboration. |
| - John Steinbeck |
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| Many receive advice, few profit by it. |
| - Publilius Syrus |
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| 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 |
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| It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. |
| - Anne Tyler |
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| There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. |
| - Gore Vidal |
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| I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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