If any whimsical notions are put into you by some enthusiastic counsel, the Court is not to take notice of their crochets.
Advice Quotes
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot […]
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be […]
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
We may give advice, but we can’t inspire conduct.
He who will not answer to the rudder, must answer to the rocks.
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.
