Advice Quotes

What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.

If you keep your mind sufficiently open people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

William A. Orton

Don't fight forces use them.

Buckminster Fuller

What is important is to keep learning to enjoy challenge and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

Henry David Thoreau

You must not think sir to catch old birds with chaff.

Cervantes

Never give advice in a crowd.

Never give advice unless asked.

Whatever advice you give be short.

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld

We give advice but we do not inspire conduct.

La Rochefoucauld

Good counsel has no price.

Guiseppe Mazzini

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.

Syrus

Admonish your friends privately but praise them openly.

Syrus

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

To make pleasure pleasant shorten.

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Cicero

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Spanish Proverb

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

He who can lick can bite.

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

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask for we never tell him all and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Diane de Poitiers

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

Mary Wortley Montagu

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.

Anonymous

Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield

It is well enough when one is talking to a friend to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.

Mary Lamb

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.

But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.

Goethe

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock and as he reached the climax of his exhortation a man in the front row got up and said 'O Lord use me. Use me O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'

Adlai Stevenson

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Benjamin Disraeli

You had better not open that door.

George MacDonald

What is your wildest dream?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Anything that comes easy may not be worth it.

Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I am a happy soul, despite all life challenges.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hang on! Don’t give up.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love me, desire me and pray for me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be who your are, do not be what people want you to be

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Positive mind set fuels positive action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Read the scriptures daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Blessed are you who sow. Every seed you so plant, will grow into bountiful crops for great harvest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest virtue is endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough grace for each day task.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never second guess yourself. Or do, maybe. Whatever you feel good about.

Those of us who have overcome so many adversities from a very young age, are privileged to be able to communicate profound insights and advice to others, speaking from a place of genuine confidence and knowing.

Miya Yamanouchi

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Kathleen Norris

Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The bottom line is this; when one person stops being a part of your life, another one will come, and fill that empty space. Leave the ones who left in the past, right where they belong, and never look back.

Ena Snow

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