Quotes About Guidance

The best people seldom give you the best advice.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

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

Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants - and I give it to him.

Who needs advice most, usually likes it least.

Take advice from people who are where you want to be.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

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

Advice is free: The right answer will cost plenty.

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

He who takes advice is wiser than the one who gives it.

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

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

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

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

What can't be done by advice can often be done by example.

No vice is so bad as advice.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.