Advice Quotes - Page 4

• There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Funny, Success, Giving

  13 Copy quote

• Whatever your advice, make it brief.

  Horace

  8 Copy quote

• Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

  Horace

  Mind, Superfluous

  9 Copy quote

• When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Desire, Weakness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Vices, Virtue, Conversation

  7 Copy quote

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

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia, Lessons

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes”, p.146

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to be odd to be number one.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Unique, Numbers

  234 Copy quote

• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving

  12 Copy quote

• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Life And Love, Taken, People

  24 Copy quote

• Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.

  Bob Goff

  Motivational, Healing, Acceptance

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Oct 16, 2014

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fun, Exercise, Riding

  60 Copy quote
• 

  If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

  David Bowie

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  “Late-night hosts pay tribute to David Bowie” by Danette Chavez, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2016.

  7907 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Giving, Entering

  60 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  31 Copy quote

• No vice is so bad as advice.

  Marie Dressler

  Vices

  11 Copy quote

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

  Solon

  Life, Friendship, Giving

  53 Copy quote

• Whatever advice you give, be short.

  Horace

  Funny, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Ars Poetica, CCCXXXV, 1922.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

  Alexis Carrel

  Teamwork, Helping Others, People

  44 Copy quote

• People make suggestions on what to say all the time... Trust me.

  George W. Bush

  People, Suggestions, Trust Me

  9 Copy quote

• Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Smart, Gambling, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

  13 Copy quote

• My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

  William Allen White

  Women, Inspirational Life, America

  97 Copy quote

• Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Somewhere Else, Household Chores

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source