Advice Quotes

Quotes about Advice

• All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.  Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Life
• Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.  –Chinese proverb
• Don't let other people tell you what you want. Pat Riley
• Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.  Robert S. Lynd
• I desperately need some wise advice which will recommend that I do what I want to do.
• If you're called upon to give advice, you should know that it is like snow: The softer it falls, the deeper it goes.
• It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. -Dame Rose Macaulay
• It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, and normal to ignore it.  - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. Harper Lee (1926- ); US novelist.
• Never complain that things aren't what they used to be ... neither are you.
• Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.  - Cicero
• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. P Edna St. Vincent Millay
• The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
• The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. – Kenneth Grahame
• When at home, amuse yourself. When visiting, try to amuse others.
• When you need advice, everyone is ready to help you; but when you need help, everyone is ready to advise you.

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How We View Things Is How We Do Things = Asking for advice or counsel is a high complement to others. When you receive counsel, you gain another perspective. With perspective, comes maturity and the ability to see more. Let other people help you reach your potential. 

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Proverbs 19:20 ESV Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Proverbs 24:6 ESV For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Proverbs 14:15 ESV The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.

Advice

    Leaders should consider the advice of others (Exodus 18:13–26)

    Older people often give wise advice (1 Kings 12:1–11)

    Stay away from people who give wicked advice (Psalm 1:1)

    God’s advice is best (Psalm 73:24)

    Wise people seek advice (Proverbs 1:5)

    Advice helps provide success (Proverbs 11:14)

    Foolish people do not listen to advice (Proverbs 12:15)

    Give advice to those in need (1 Thessalonians 5:14)

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