Advice Quotes

The counsel you would have another keep, first keep yourself.

Proverb

Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it.

Proverb

The best counselors are the dead.

Proverb

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Arnold Glasgow

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving she may sound to him.

John Gray

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.

John Gray

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

William S. Burroughs

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King

No one wants advice -- only corroboration.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Ou

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Li

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.

Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Paulo Coelho

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

John Churton Collins

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

John Churton Collins

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

Bo Bennett

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite moresYou keep to your own ways, and leave mine to meEditor's note: seems to be a predecessor to Live and Let Live

Plutarch

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.

Phillips Brooks

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Ambrose Bierce

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Mother Theresa

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Virginia Woolf