advice quotes

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I give opinions, not advice.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

General consultant to mankind.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.