Famous Quotes about Advice (94 Quotations)

Give help rather than advice.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

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.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

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

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as you.

If one man says to thee, ''Thou art a donkey,'' pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

In those days he was wiser than he is now — he used frequently to take my advice.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

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

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.