I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Advice Quotes
Giving advice is a very peculiar affair; and when one has looked round the world for a time and seen how the most cleverly designed enterprises fail, and how the most absurd often turn out well, one becomes chary of giving any one advice. There is at bottom, a certain restraint in him who asks […]
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.
A wise man puts aside 10 percent of the money he gets – and 90 percent of the free advice.
I passed by a party of men in the night of my ascension to heaven. Their tongues were being cut with scissors. I asked them: ‘Who are you?’ They said: ‘We used to give advice to others for good deeds but we used not to do them. We used to prohibit evil deeds to others, […]
I intended to give you some advice, but now I remember how much is left from last year unused.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being […]
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
