Quotes about Advice
If I could give one piece of advice, it would be 'If you're angry with a family member, talk to God about it, not the other members of your family.'
- Deborah Raney
My advice to an ordinary religious man, supposing anyone were to desire my advice on this point, would be to avoid all arguments about religion, and especially about the existence of God.
- Thomas Merton
If your opinion is sound, and you forego it for the love of God and follow that of another, you will win great merit. I have often heard that it is safer to accept advice than to give it. It may even come about that each of two opinions is good; but to refuse to come to an agreement with others when reason or occasion demand it, is a sign of pride and obstinacy.
- Thomas a Kempis
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
- George Bernard Shaw
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There was this conflict within me because so many people would come up to me to ask for prayers for all sorts of things, and 50% would be about money like, 'How can I pay for the tuition fee of my kids?' And I could only pray for them. I had no advice to give them because I didn't know anything about money.
- Bo Sanchez
Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time.
- George W. Bush
If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.
- George W. Bush
little brother break his ornery neck. "Tate, this is a bad idea.
- Susan May Warren
My mom cautioned me not to become a gossip! I was always up in people's business. People told me stuff... even when I didn't ask and I channeled my story gathering and good sources into a hunger for the news.
- Harris Faulkner
Who among your acquaintances, a. encourages you most b. cautions you most c. discourages you most d. helps you most in other ways
- Napoleon Hill