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Quotes About Advice

Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
~ Bible
Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.
~ Unknown
Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
~ Gene Brown
Who says Jack is not generous? He is always fond of giving, and cares not for receiving. What? Why; Advice.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The devotees of the Lord have the Wealth and Capital of the Lord; with Guru's Advice, they carry on their trade. They praise the Name of the Lord forever and ever. The Name of the Lord is their Merchandise and Support.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
From the very beginning, and throughout the ages, He is the Lord and Master of His servants. His Name is the Support of His devotees. Nanak gives this advice.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
~ John Churton Collins
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
~ Unknown
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
~ Horace
When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.
~ Proverb
Never give advice - sell it.
~ Unknown
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
~ Horace Smith
Be ni...rds of advice on no pretense, For the worst avarice is that of sense.
~ Alexander Pope
We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do.
~ Josh Billings
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
~ Unknown
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
~ John Burroughs
And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: / And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
~ Bible
And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
~ Bible
Free advice costs nothing until you act upon it.
~ Unknown
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
~ Unknown
An intelligent person not only knows how to take advice, but also how to reject it.
~ Unknown
It's a bad child who does not take advice.
~ African Proverb
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
~ Josh Billings