Advice Quotes

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

Wise, Stupid, Word

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Pain, Person, Giving

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford

Work, God, Best

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Good, Happy, Wife

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, Parents

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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mind, Snow, Longer

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

Used, Days, Wiser

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

Good, Pass, Oneself

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Matter, Answer

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

Fire, Country, English

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

Good, Pass, Oneself

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, True

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett

Place, Street, Wall

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Khalil Gibran

Others, Act, Ask

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers

Good, Wise, Mind

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
Eminem

Father, Confidence, Give

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

Sex, Why, Knows

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

Friendly, Regret, Two

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Power, Live

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yourself, Give, Nobody

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
Aldous Huxley

Life, End, Human

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

True, Giving, Trying

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

Life, Today, Game

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
Mitt Romney

Success, God, Best

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

Success, Best, Away

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan P. Smith

Great, Give, Accept

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom, Give, Cannot

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.
Francis Bacon

Good, Bad, Down

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