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Quotes About Guidance

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
~ Frank Tyger
Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
~ Proverb
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Seek advice but use your own common sense.
~ Yiddish Proverb
A good example has twice the value of good advice.
~ Unknown
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Be yourself is the worst advice you can give to some people.
~ Tom Masson
Whatever advice you give, be short.
~ Horace
As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice
~ Unknown
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.
~ Italian proverb
Advice should be viewed from behind.
~ Swedish Proverb
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
~ Lillian Hellman
The best advice we can give ourselves is the loving advice we'd give somebody else. I can get some great clarity during my own workshops.
~ Unknown
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
~ Spanish proverb
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Juvenile delinquency would disappear if kids followed their parent's advice instead of their example.
~ Unknown
We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
~ English proverb
Follow the advice of those who make you crie, never of those who make you laugh.
~ Arab proverb
Advice is the smallest current coin.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
~ Unknown
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
~ Unknown