Advice Quotes - Page 9

• We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Giving, Profit

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• They say that the best counsel is that of woman.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  "'El médico de su honra' ('The Surgeon of his Honour')". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Act 1, Scene 2, 1637.

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• Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Giving

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• If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, People, Looks

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• I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs, Business, People

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• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Real, Woven

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

  Phyllis Diller

  Children, Bottles, Comedy

  "Fearless and Funny: When Comedy Was Queen" by Michael R. Drew and Robert J. Hughes, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

  John Steinbeck

  Thinking, Mind, Jewelry

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• We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Use, May

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• Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Spiritual

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• Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

  Gene Brown

  Long, Grace, Firsts

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• To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  'Letters to Arthur Charles Stanhope, Esq.' (1817) Letter to A. C. Stanhope, 12 October 1765

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

  Moshe Dayan

  Aggravation, Arms, Decline

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy Friday, Men, Born

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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• Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

  Cory Booker

  Love, Inspirational, Wise

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Nov 14, 2013

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

  Khalil Gibran

  People, Please, Asks

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• The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Men, Lists

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (2009). “The Path of the Law”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• Many receive advice, few profit by it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Investing, Judgment, Profit

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 149, 1856.

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• 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

  Men, Opinion, Mines

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

  David Hockney

  Fake People, Work, Believe

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Bad Ass, Giving, Promise

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inability To Love, Giving, People

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