Quotes About Advice

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

To advise is not to compel.

My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated.

Advice after injury is like medicine after death

Never answer an anonymous letter

Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

Faith in Him has welled up within my mind. Nanak gives this advice.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

When you need professional advice, get it from professionals, not from your friends.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

The best people seldom give you the best advice.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us? And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: Do not try.

Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord, since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.

Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.