Quotes about Advice

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.

ABOUT  (ABO'UT)   prep.[abutan, or abuton, Sax. which seems to signify encircling on the outside.]1. Round, surrounding, encircling. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart.BibleProverbs,iii. 3.

One corporate executive faced this spiritual crisis and went on a pilgrimage to Calcutta, India, to seek the advice of Mother Teresa. She spoke sharply with him. She told him to go back home to Wisconsin and be a good CEO so that his company might prosper and keep many people gainfully employed. "Bloom where you're planted," she told him, so that in Milwaukee the Missionaries of Charity would never find "the poorest of the poor.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.

The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.