Advice Quotes

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

• “One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.” Georg C. Lichtenberg

• “People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.” Abigail Van Buren

• “We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don’t follow when it damages those who take us at our word.” Adlai Stevenson

• “It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.” Aeschylus

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.” Agatha Christie

• “I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.” Albert Camus

• “Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.” Albert Schweitzer

• “Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? “Keep her,” I replied…. The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.” Anna Quindlen

• “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

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

• “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, sr.

• “Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.” George Burns

• “I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” Gloria Steinem

• “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

• “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” Ramona L. Anderson

• “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost

• “It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.” Samuel Smiles

• “Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well.” Thomas Jefferson

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

• “Take it easy, but take it.” Woody Guthrie

• “Good things, when short, are twice as good.” Gracián

• “I have found 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

• “He only profits from praise who values criticism.” Heinrich Heine

• “Whatever advice you give, be brief.” Horace

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

• “Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.” Karl Barth

• “If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.” Lillian Hellman

• “When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.” Louisa May Alcott

• “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” Marcus Aurelius

• “Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.” Margaret Fuller

• “Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain

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

• “”Do-so” is more important than “say-so.”" Pete Seeger

• “He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” Rabindranath Tagore