Advice Sayings & Quotes
These advice sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.In giving advice, seek to help, not to please, your friend. - Solon
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. - Josh Billings
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte
No one wants advice, only corroboration. - John Steinbeck
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. - Cicero
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
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle, to do nothing at all. - Sydney Smith
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. [How to Save Your Own Life] - Erica Mann Jong
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life, so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off! - Henry V. Miller
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton