Advice Quotes, Sayings about giving and taking advice - Page 2
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
- Erica Jong
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
- Agatha Christie
My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like-just don’t swallow it.
- Harry Secombe
He was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn’t look to me for advice.
- Andre Agassi
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
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
- Duc
The advice I would give them graduates is whatever you are going to do, if you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it.
- Philip Green
Accept good advice gracefully as long as it doesn’t interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
- Gene Brown
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
- Sir Roger L’Estrange
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
- Alfonso
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
- Ellen Glasgow
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton
If someone gives you so called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.
- Anselm Feuerbach
The best piece of advice I ever got came from my agent, who told me to stop slagging off studio heads when I’m doing interviews.
- Ewan McGregor
Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
- Joan Rivers
When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
- Erma Bombeck
Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can’t carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.
- Zubin Mehta
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
- Nicolas Chamfort
Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
- Confucius
This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
- Phyllis McGinley
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
- Gloria Steinem
Never elated while one man’s oppressed; Never dejected while another’s blessed.
- Alexander Pope
You’ve got to aim high and see where you land.
- Nigel Harman
You can’t know how far you can go, unless yo try to go too far.
- Anonymous
Every mistake you make is only increasing your odds of succeeding.
- Nick LaPorta
I always do my best to convince myself I haven’t done my best. But I don’t always succeed.
- Anonymous
This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn’t interest me. It’s only really done to make money.
- Agnetha Faltskog
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
- Anonymous
I’ve had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.
- François Rochefoucauld
Advice is the smallest current coin.
- Ambrose Bierce
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
- Sir Philip Sidney
My advice for posterity? Live by principle that’s all.
- Steve Wallace
If you have a hit, the best thing that can happen to you is having a bigger hit open next door.
- Howard Otway


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