1. A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~James Callaghan
2. A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice. ~Bill Cosby
3. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon - and the deeper it sinks into - the mind. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. ~Carolyn Wells
5. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~Erica Jong
6. Advice would always be more acceptable if it didn't conflict with our plans. ~New England proverb
7. Blame not before you have examined; Interrupt not in the midst of speech; Answer not before you have heard; Understand first, and then enlighten. ~Unknown
8. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish growth without destroying the roots ~Unknown
9. Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. ~Agatha Christie
10. He only profits from praise who values criticism. ~Heinrich Heine
11. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. ~Francis Bacon
12. I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
13. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~Harry S Truman
14. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. ~Gloria Steinem
15. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~G. K. Chesterton
16. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ~Lillian Hellman
17. If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge. ~Napoleon Hill
18. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. ~Samuel Smiles
19. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. ~Aeschylus
20. Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. ~Spanish Proverb
21. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli
22. The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. ~Oscar Wilde
23. To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own. ~John Gray
24. We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word. ~Adlai Stevenson:
25. Whatever advice you give, be brief. ~Horace
26. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
27. When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. ~Louisa May Alcott (in Little Women)