Advice Quotations

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.


Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. ~Bible


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

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take. ~Josh Billings


Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. ~Josh Billings


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


I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. ~Josh Billings


There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. ~ Francis Bacon


The worst men often give the best advice. ~ Philip James Bailey


Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. ~ Ivern Ball


Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. ~ Walter Benjamin


A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. ~ Bible


Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. ~ Mary Wortley Montagu


A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. ~ Edgar Watson Howe


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~ Cicero



Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~ Erica Jong


Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~ Gordon R. Dickson


When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw


It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. ~William Shakespeare



The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ~ Hannah Whitall Smith


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


Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. ~ John Churton Collins


To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ~ John Churton Collins


In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. ~ Solon



We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.