Advice Quotes

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

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• We ask advice but we mean approbation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Asks

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.116

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• See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Want, Way

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2014

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• We advise others better than ourselves.

  Norm MacDonald

  Advise

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• Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Acting, Doe, Action

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.451, Cambridge University Press

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• Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

  Gordon R. Dickson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wall

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• A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Life, Wise

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009

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• He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Christian, Helping Others

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.191, Open Road Media

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• Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

  Barry Commoner

  Information

  "'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Tom Hanks ('The Post')" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 9, 2018.

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• If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Mistake, Wind, People

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

  Lewis Carroll

  Happiness, Sweet, Through The Looking Glass

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

  Lillian Hellman

  Inspirational, Writing, Talking

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• One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Safety, Port, Advise

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• There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Example, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.365, Penguin

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• I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

  Mae West

  Stars, Thinking, Clothes

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• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Men, Giving, Sound

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• Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

  Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena

  Men, Hazards, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Conde Lucanor, 1922.

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

  Josh Billings

  Men, Giving, Want

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• My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

  Judy Blume

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Needs

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• I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

  Gloria Steinem

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)

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• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Success, Time

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