Advice Quotes

One, who is willful and conceited will suffer losses and calamities and one who seeks advice can secure advan- tages of many counsels.

You have been shown, if you only care to see; you have been advised if you care to take advantage of advice; you have been told if you care to listen to good counsels.

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

They keep telling me dont save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isnt right then who will I complain to?

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

The worst men often give the best advice.

In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: "For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana."

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

Be careful what you say if you wouldn't want it broadcast everywhere because you never know. My basic advice would be for trust is : Live the way you ought to live all the time as much as you can help it.

If you like poetry, let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare..... Wordsworth, Southey. Charlotte's advice to her friend Ellen Nussey.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

A thought is an upshot of the desire. When someone thinks about what he wants, he does not think of something undesirable. For example, a person never thinks about the day of his death. On the contrary, he will always contemplate his perpetuity, for this is his desire. Thus, one always thinks of what is desirable (...) It turns out that thought serves desire, and desire is the self of the person. Now, there is a great self, or a small self. A great self dominates the small selves. He who is a small self has no dominion whatsoever, and the advice is to magnify the self through the diligence of the thought on the desire, since it grows to the extent that one thinks of it.