Advice Quotes

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Chinese Proverb

Never give advice in a crowd.

Arabic Proverb

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

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A word to the wise is infuriating.

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Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

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Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

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Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Benjamin Franklin

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

G. K. Chesterton

All diseases run into one. Old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was no full assurance that the work was really necessary, and the activity itself, which at first seemed so great, ever lessened and lessened till it vanished. But now...when he began to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer felt any joy at the thought of his activity, he felt confident that his work was necessary, saw that it progressed far better than formerly, and that it was always growing more and more.

Leo Tolstoy

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

I Ching

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

Lord Hanson

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Robert Cecil