Quotes About Advice

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.

I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems.

I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

But did this matter? No king could do everything himself: kingship was a matter of delegation, but with the king making the major decisions. Effective delegation, however, required, first, choosing competent ministers and, second, a willingness to follow their advice and to back them up when necessary.

Thus Belial with words cloth'd in reason's garbCounsel'd ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth,Not peace.

I told you when you were married, I told you to take a firm stand on certain things." "You never told me what things, though." "Well, dear, a nice girl. I couldn't very well tell you some things till the matter came up.

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, experts advised men to have their kitchens painted apple-green. The experts believed that apple-green quieted nervous people, and especially wives beginning to think of suffrage, of careers beyond the home. Today the explorer of color schemes finds in old houses and apartments the apple-green paint still gracing the inside of the cabinet under the kitchen sink, and the hallways of old police stations and insane asylums.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

I frequently recall his sage advice to me at our first meeting: "Don't change who you are now that you've 'arrived.

Commonplace wisdom is the best kind of wisdom for common needs and every-day occasions.

All errors which he is likely to commit against advice and warning, are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him to what they deem his good.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Read on and I will tell you what to do in the future to avoid getting smashed and find yourself with nothing but little pieces of drift floating around in the ship's wake.

Did I ever tell you my father's last words to me? 'Careful son, I don't think the safety is on'. Before that.

I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

Whether we coach, advise, counsel, facilitate, or mentor, the effectiveness of what we do depends in large measure on our beliefs about human potential. The expressions "to get the best out of someone" and "your hidden potential" imply that more lies within the person waiting to be released.

My uncle once told me to read the poets, to love them, and to use them—but never to trust them.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.