Advice Quotes | Wise Sayings about Offering Counsel

Best advice in two lines…
Silence is the best answer for all questions.
Smiling is the best reaction in all situations.

Don’t trust too much. Don’t love too much. Don’t hope too much. Because that too much can hurt you so much.

Improve yourself, but never change. Be someone better, but remain yourself. Forget who hurt you, but don’t forget who loves you every day. Forget the past that makes you cry and focus on the present that makes you smile.

Never change who you are just because you’re afraid of losing them. If they really love you, your imperfections won’t matter.

Do not give advice unless you are asked to.

When you say yes to others make sure you are not saying no to yourself.

Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.

Be careful with your words, they can only be forgiven not forgotten.

Never reply when you are angry.
Never make a promise when you are happy.
Never make a decision when you are sad.

Remind yourself that it’s okay not to be perfect.

Listen to your elder’s advice. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong…

Speak humbly, listen respectfully, smile gently.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Making a big life change is scary. But do you know what’s even scarier? Regrets.

Don’t waste your life focusing on the bad things and what people tell you that you could never do, look at all the good things and all the paths you could follow to fulfill your dreams.

Don’t ever dumb yourself down just to make someone else feel comfortable.

Don’t worry if people don’t like you. You shouldn’t change to be someone that you’re not, just for other people to like you.

Don’t ever change for someone who is not willing to change anything about them for you.

Don’t try and teach that which you have yet to master yourself.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

You can let your mind do the thinking, and let your heart do the loving, but don’t let others control you.

Never make a promise when you’re happy.
Never make a decision when you’re angry.

Do not let people look down on you because you are young, but be an example to them in faith and wisdom.

Don’t give advice unless you’re asked.
– Amy Alcott

Be kind, be loving, be caring, be understanding, but never lose yourself in the process.

Be the kind of man you’d like your son to become, the kind of man you would love your daughter to marry for life.
Be the kind of woman you would like your daughter to be, the kind of women you’d love your son to choose for a wife.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never tell your problems to anyone.
20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Easiest thing in the world is to give advice and toughest thing is to take it.

Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
– Mark Twain

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
– Aesop

Giving you advice doesn’t mean that I’m smarter than you, I’ve just been through a lot of sh*t.

The most golden rule is – Do not ever ignore advice, whether you feel it is good or bad. Listening never harms any one. It is how you take it, apply it and use it that matters in the end.

A pen is mighter then a sword.

Let other people advice but never let them decide for you.

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.
– Erma Bombeck

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
– Henry David Thoreau

Never try to give advice to someone if you have been stupid enough to take theirs

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
– George Washington

People advising others often forget that the same advice applies to their life as well.

Good advice is often annoying – bad advice never is.

Listen to your heart. Even when it says you need advice.

If someone tells you to never take advice from anyone should you take his?

Be like water and adapt to any situation.

Be humble, be patient, be persistent.
– Dr T.P.Chia

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.
– Bill Cosby

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
– Carolyn Wells

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
– Agatha Christie

The world’s most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice…
– Chetan Bhagat

Look famous, be legendary, appear complex, act easy, radiate presence, travel light, seem a dream, prove real.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
– Warren Buffett

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
– Erica Jong

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
– Oscar Wilde

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
– Publilius Syrus

Stop caring what people think. Stop taking caution in your actions, listen to what you want, do what you want, this is your life. Live it.

Don’t give advice you wouldn’t take if you were in their shoes.

Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Be yourself, don’t change being you for anyone, if they don’t like you for who you are then they don’t deserve to be in your life. You are you and you can’t be anyone different.

Distrust interested advice.
– Aesop

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
– Anne Tyler

Be yourself no matter what. Some will adore you and some will hate everything about you. But who cares? It’s your life. Make the most of it.

Only do what your heart tells you.
– Princess Diana

Rather than taking advice from poor people on how to be rich. Take advice from people who are where you want to be.
– Alex Hormozi

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
– Abigail Van Buren

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
– Lord Chesterfield

Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.
– Al Batt

The best advice I’ve ever received is, “No one else knows what they’re doing either.”
– Ricky Gervais

When someone has no context on your life and gives advice, they’re not talking to you, they’re talking to themselves.
– Alex Hormozi

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
– Norman Ralph Augustine

Live your life for you not for anyone else. Don’t let the fear of being judged, rejected or disliked stop you from being yourself.

Never show your emotion through tears & never show anger through words.

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

Don’t listen to other people, because their words don’t define you and who you are!

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
– Robert Lynd

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
– Albert Camus

Don’t live a life that others want you to live, live your own life do what you love, chase your dreams and goals.

Never take advice from unproductive people.

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It’s funny how I’m good at giving advice to others, but when it comes to helping myself, I don’t know what to do.

You are somebody, be yourself, believe in yourself embrace your uniqueness, always be grateful for the life and everything you have.

To lead a fruitful life, you need to give your best and set your internal standards and not compare yourself to others.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can’t answer.
– Charles M. Schulz

The most considerate gift you can offer to someone who gave you advice is to not saddle them with the fallout of you ignoring it.
– Alan Robert Neal

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
– Kahlil Gibran

Always do what you feel is right, do what makes you happy, and do what you want to do. Don’t let problems and adversity discourage you, stay strong, be yourself.

Advice is good, but then the wise don’t need it and the fools won’t take it.

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

Taking advice is not a sign of weakness, but of humility and the willingness to learn and grow.

Don’t tell me how to be me when you can’t even figure yourself out.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
– Aeschylus

Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
– Baltasar Gracian

Life is too short to waste your time trying to get people to like, love or care for you. If they can’t love you for you, then it’s their loss.

The most effective advice is not just about telling someone what to do, but about helping them to understand why it’s important.

Just be you. Do what you love. I’ve learned that in the end, you can’t make everyone happy no matter what you say or do, some people will never be happy or like you.

The best advice is not always the most obvious, it’s about listening and understanding the unique situation of the person.

It’s easier to advise than be advised.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the truth but wish we didn’t.

Giving advice is not about imposing our own beliefs and values, but about helping others to find their own way.

I work on instinct. It’s my best adviser.
– Princess Diana

Always be yourself, express yourself have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

The problem with acting as your own advisor is that you’re often seeking advice from the person who created the problem.
– Alan Robert Neal

Sometimes in your life you just meet someone or hear something that nudges you on the right path. And that becomes the best advice. It could just be a bit of commonsense said in a way that resonates with something in you. It’s nothing new, but because it connects with you it holds meaning for you.
– Chetan Bhagat

All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself.
– Fred Van Amburgh

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you’ll catch up.

When wishing upon a star seems like your best option, you are in need of advice.

Never copy quotes of others make your own.

This is your life, not theirs, don’t worry about what people think, do what you like. People gonna hate you, judge you, break you, but how strong you stand, that’s what makes defines you and make you stand strong in the time of adversity.

You are enough, and you have everything that you need to make it to your goals. Believe in yourself, be positive, be faithful, be strong and be yourself.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get people’s perspectives. I really try and live the mission of the company and keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
– Mark Zuckerberg

Never fight fire with fire you only get burned.

Don’t listen to the advice of people who are living lives you don’t want to live.
– Andrew Tate

Stop hating yourself for everything you’re not; start loving yourself for everything you are.

Don’t let other people’s opinions of you, what you say and what you do influence who you are.

If you only want advice with which you agree, go to yourself.
– Alan Robert Neal

Night is the mother of counsels.
– George Herbert

Give good advice, help, and love to those who need them, and they will do the same for you

Don’t make choices because somebody else is telling you it’s good from a career maintenance perspective.
– Brad Pitt

All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I’m tired of it. My private life has become an industry.
– Prince Charles

Do not take any advice… from any person… on any topic… in which that person’s success and happiness is not greater than yours.
– Alan Robert Neal

Loneliness is no excuse for compromise. Be comfortable with yourself before you choose to be with someone else just to avoid being alone.

Never ask people about your work.
– Ayn Rand

Don’t chase people, be you, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you and stay.

Stay away from public bathrooms!

People ask me for my advice then do the complete opposite? Why ask me in the first place?

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
– John Steinbeck

Be yourself, and believe yourself. Do the things that you love to do, and do them from your heart.

Advice is not a one-way street, it’s a conversation and a dialogue between two people.

Advice is not a set of rules to live by, but rather a guide to help us navigate through life’s challenges.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.
– John Steinbeck

Be what you want to be not what others want you to be.

Those who doesn’t heed good advice are bound to doom.

Don’t allow the opinions of others to restrict you from doing the things you love.

The greatest gift we can give someone is not just our advice, but also our time, attention, and understanding.

The greatest slowdown to an individual’s success comes from following the advice of those who haven’t achieved what the individual wants to achieve.
– Ron Malhotra

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Do not worry if others do not understand you, worry only if you cannot understand yourself.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
– Lewis Carroll

Advice is not something to be given lightly, it should be given thoughtfully and with the intention of helping.

To obstruct advice, just trick the advice-giver into having the wrong conversation. If I pretend I think pizza is good for me, you’ll uselessly discuss nutrition. But, if I admit to knowing it’s not, you’d know to address my lack of discipline.
– Alan Robert Neal

Have you ever thought about this? If someone close to you is trying hard to pass a good bit of advice and you take no notice. What does it make you?

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
– Baltasar Gracian

Advice is not about controlling or directing others, but about empowering them to make their own choices.

The people who continually whine about receiving bad advice are the ones who never follow good advice.
– Alan Robert Neal

I’ve never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
– Indira Gandhi

Don’t just follow the line. To be a Star – Shine!

You should never ever abuse the one carrying you on his back.

Never lose your enthusiasm nor hope. Cos miracles happen everyday. Just believe in God and do your duty. Lastly you will succeed.

Don’t be an example in someone else’s theory, write yours using your own examples.

Do what you like, be what you want to be, life is too short to waste on doing things that you don’t like.

The most valuable advice is not always the one we want to hear, but the one we need to hear.

Before you be true to others, your first need to do is to be true to yourself.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
– Colette

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