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Quotes About Guidance

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~ Alexis Carrel
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
~ Unknown
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
~ Erica Jong
When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger.
~ Unknown
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't offer me advice; give me money.
~ Spanish proverb
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
~ Lewis Carroll
Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice.
~ Unknown
Good advice is often annoying - bad advice never is.
~ French proverb
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
~ Bill Cosby
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~ Harry S Truman
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Do not be afraid, for even now I hear the yearnings of your heart, and I am sending you my answer to your prayers. Though you may not know the ways of your journey, I am guiding you with my gentle touch. You are not alone. I hold you in my hands to protect you. Someday my plan for you will become clear and you will find peace. Until such time walk in faith. Remember- I love you. You are my child.
~ Tom Krause
Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
~ Jon Gordon
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prayer is more like listening than anything else...being quiet in God's presence, waiting on God until we know what to do.
~ David Roper
Don't trust to hold God's hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the holding, and you the trusting.
~ Unknown
Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you.
~ George Mueller
Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.
~ Unknown
Through waves and clouds and storms His power will clear your way; Wait for his time; the darkest night Shall end in brightest day.
~ Paul Gerhardt
It's exciting to live in complete oneness with the will of God. It is never dull or static because it is not a one-time, once-for-all commitment. It is something we have to work at constantly, moment by moment.
~ Evelyn Christenson