Advice Quotes - Page 2

• Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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• To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Criticism, Accepting

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• How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

  Jonathan Swift

  Warning, Mankind

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.608

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• When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

  Khalil Gibran

  Numbers, Enemy, Turns

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• Give help rather than advice.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Giving

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  Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Confidence

  George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94

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• Believe nothing,
  No matter where you read it,
  Or who has said it,
  Not even if I have said it,
  Unless it agrees with your own reason
  And your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

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• Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Faces, Wry

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• 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

  Best Friend, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author by Basil Montagu”, p.35, Philadelphia : Parry & McMillan

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• Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Teenager, Teens

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• There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

  John Burroughs

  Men, Earth, Certain

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• The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

  Jim Harrison

  Wine, Giving, Red

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• My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.

  Teri Hatcher

  Stars, Goal, Healthy

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

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Intention, Results, Judged

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• Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Survivor, Come Up

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• There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".

  John Denver

  Dad, College, Guitar

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• My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, People, Perception

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• It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.

  Ben Heppner

  Giving, News, May

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• Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

  Mark Kostabi

  Teacher, Art, New York

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• Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Worry, Good Work, Express Yourself

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• This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

  Omar Sharif

  Wise, Character, Sound

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• I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, Forget, Lost Things

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.432

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• Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  May, Ends, Considering

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• Direct not him whose way himself will choose;
  'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Way, Breaths, Direct

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.256

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