ADVICE QUOTES IV

quotations about advice

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

XENOCRATES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

CROFT M. PENTZ

1001 Things Your Mother Told You


Sometimes the worst advice is the advice that you don't get.

JOHN NAPOLITANO

"Making Cents: Defining good advice", Dover Post, March 1, 2016


In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

letter to A.C. Stanhope, Oct. 12, 1765

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The worst men often give the best advice.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

DAVID J. LIEBERMAN

Get Anyone to Do Anything

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Advice is like deep waters in the heart of the person, and a wise individual knows how to draw it out.

MISHLEI 20:5


To take advice of some few friends, is ever honorable; for lookers-on many times see more than gamesters; and the vale best discovereth the hill.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Followers And Friends", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

GEORGE ADE

"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills

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The right advice is very personal, and will depend on your particular situation.

JASON VISNER

"How To Tell If You Are Getting Bad Advice About Your TSP", FedSmith, February 23, 2016


Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

attributed, Mumbo Jumbo


Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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When I ask for advice, it is usually because I want someone to tell me that I am OK, that my relationship is OK, that everything will work out the way I want it to. It is extremely difficult for me to trust my gut, particularly when I know for a fact that my gut -- confused by anxiety -- is so frequently full of shit.

KATIE HEANEY

"Why I've Stopped Giving And Asking For Advice", Buzzfeed, March 1, 2016


Sometimes stepping back, locking down and taking good advice is the best way to limit the damage.

ANDREW PROCTER

"Crisis contenders", Lexology, February 24, 2016


His advice is most esteemed in other men's matters, that is unerring in his own--example is the most forcible argument of precept.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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It is easy enough to advise a drunkard not to drink, but difficult for you to understand his view point on the subject if you are not a drinking man yourself.

WILLIAM CROSBIE HUNTER

Dollars and Sense

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Human nature, when it will not receive advice, is like a stony plain without grass, animals will not approach, all remain at a distance from it.

SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES

The History of Java, vol. 2


There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

AL FRANKEN

Oh, the Things I Know!