Quotes on Advice

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?

It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.

Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.