Famous Quotes about Advice (94 Quotations)

Some of these people need ten years of therapy –ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

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

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

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.

The worst men often give the best advice.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

To advise is easier than to help.

To advise is not to compel.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.