Advice SMS

When a man won’t listen to his conscience, it’s usually because he doesn’t want advice from a total stranger.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

When a wise man is advised of his errors he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

When Thales was asked what was difficult he said, “To know ones self.” And what was easy, “To advise another.”

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

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Who cannot give good counsel? Tis cheap it costs them nothing.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don’t follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

What nectar can be drunk with the ears? Good advice.

What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your tongue.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.

To offer a man unsolicited
advice is to presume that he
doesn’t know what to do or that
he can’t do it on his own.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

U can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

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

We generally admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice.

We give advice by the bucket but take it by the grain.

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence importance or worth.

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to;
and that is, every now and then to be completely idle – to do nothing at all.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

There’s no advice like father’s — even if you don’t take it.

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility

To Cole Porter: listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The proverb warns that, “You should not bite the hand that feeds you.” But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

The rich r always advising the poor, bt the poor seldom return the compliment.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give to any young woman is: Dont screw around and dont smoke.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems
before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.
We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest
we wait forever before taking action. It’s still good advice to cross bridges
as we come to them.

The tragedy of life iz not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

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.

The war is lost for too much advice.

The will of a wealthy New York woman in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.

There are none so deaf as those who will not hear advice.