Quotes About Advice

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

I have always advised men to read

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.