Advice Quotes

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.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

There are a lot of personal things that take place when becoming governor and I am happy to work with him should he ask. I will give him the best advice I can give.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative of providing comprehensive security at my personal property would have entailed significant extra costs to the taxpayer.

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.