Quotes About Advice

I asked my instructor how I could cut ten strokes off my score. He told me to quit on hole 17!

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.

Stop selling. Start helping.

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

People, in general, he said, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.

People ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville—the counsels being thrown into the bargain.

You are forgetting the person who advised him.' 'Pah! If one were to be held to account for every remark one lets fall …' 'Yes, when it falls point downwards.

Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him.

that he perceived that people said the truth and that she had poisoned all her family; to which she replied, that if she had, it was only through following bad advice, and that one could not always be good.

People, in general, Athos said, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.

People in general only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having some one to blame for having given it

Si domandano consigli soltanto per non seguirli, oppure, se si seguono, è per avere qualcuno da rimproverare per averli dati.

Digo que el amor es una lotería en la que el que gana, gana la muerte. Sois muy afortunado por haber perdido, creedme, mi querido D'Artagnan. Y si tengo algún consejo que daros, es perder siempre.