Advice Quotes and Sayings - Page 2



A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.
Bill Cosby

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Carolyn Wells

Whatever advice you give, be brief.
Horace

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
James Callaghan

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong

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

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

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon

Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb

Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
Proverb

Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus

When a man won’t listen to his conscience, it’s usually because he doesn’t want advice from a total stranger.
Lindsey Stewart

Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise”
Thomas More

A good example has twice the value of good advice.
Anonymous

The best advice is this: Don’t take advice and don’t give advice.
Anonymous

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Proverb

Advice is like Castor oil; easy enough to give, but dreadful uneasy to take.
Josh Billings

Take it easy — but take it.
Woody Guthrie

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
William Shakespeare

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Nobody can help you to solve your problem, except yourself.
Anonymous
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Life is what you make it.
Anonymous
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You can learn more from your competitors than your friends, they will be among the very first to expose your every flaw and shortcoming.
Joseph P. Martino
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