Advice Quotes

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

I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of those things in the course of the interview, and I made clear this is a matter only for after I had become a private citizen and I was no longer a member of parliament.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

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

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

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

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

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

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.