Advice Quotes

Good counsel failing men can give, for why? He that’s aground knows where the shoal doth lie.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

Keep a good sense of humor, man. You’re going to need it. And enjoy yourself. Because, you know, we don’t know how long we’re here for.

As a grown man, you should know better than to go around advising people.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out on our own.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

He loves who advises.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.