Quotes about Advice

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Giving preachers advice on how to prepare sermons is a little like telling them what "their drink" should be at Starbucks.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.

There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.

For I shall never advise a heathen or a Turk, let alone a Christian, to attack another or begin war.

Hence one should follow the advice of the hermit to whom a youth complained that he rather often experienced imaginations concerned with lusts and other sins and to whom the old man replied: "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head. But let them only fly and do not let them build nests in the hair of your head. Let them be thoughts and remain such; but do not let them become conclusions."32