Advice Quotes and Sayings

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.


Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

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

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

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.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

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.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

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

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Take the first advice of a woman and not the second.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.

Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Distrust interested advice.

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.