Advice Quotes - Page 4

• There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Funny, Success, Giving

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• Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

  Horace

  Mind, Superfluous

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• Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blunt, Admonition

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• Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Giving

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• Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Waiting, Casts

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• Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Vices, Virtue, Conversation

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• You have to be odd to be number one.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Unique, Numbers

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• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving

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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life And Love, Taken, People

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• Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.

  Bob Goff

  Motivational, Healing, Acceptance

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Oct 16, 2014

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  If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

  David Bowie

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  “Late-night hosts pay tribute to David Bowie” by Danette Chavez, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2016.

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• Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Giving, Entering

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• The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fun, Exercise, Riding

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No vice is so bad as advice.

  Marie Dressler

  Vices

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

  Solon

  Life, Friendship, Giving

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• Whatever advice you give, be short.

  Horace

  Funny, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Ars Poetica, CCCXXXV, 1922.

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• All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

  Alexis Carrel

  Teamwork, Helping Others, People

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• People make suggestions on what to say all the time... Trust me.

  George W. Bush

  People, Suggestions, Trust Me

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• I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

  Henry Ford

  God, Spiritual, Work

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• Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

  Robert Frost

  Change, Life And Love, Wise Words

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• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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• It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Kindness, Trying

  "Aldous Huxley - A Tribute" by Huston Smith, The Psychedelic Review, Volume 1, No. 3, Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue, pp. 264-265, 1964.

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