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• Advice: Guidance or recommendations offered with regard to prudent action. Oxford Dictionary
• Advice: An opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation. Cambridge Dictionary
• Advice: An opinion or suggestion about what someone should do. Merriam Webster
• Mentorship,  Encouragement,  Caring,  Networking,   Helpfulness,  Caution

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We often hate getting advice, especially if we didn’t ask for it

• Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. Augustus William Hare
• There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. Joseph Addison
• Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. Lord Chesterfield
• So-called good advice is always served with compliments and sprinkled with sugar. I don’t like sugar. Victoria Wolff

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We much prefer to give advice than to receive it

• Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. Carolyn Wells
• It is better to give than receive- especially advice. Mark Twain
• Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. Josh Billings
• We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. William R. Alger
• Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. Carolyn Wells
• We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest. Jules Renard
• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. François de la Rochefoucauld
• Nothing is given so profusely as advice. François de la Rochefoucauld
• Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
• It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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There are times when good advice can be extremely valuable

• He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. Karl von Knebel
• Always listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it. Robert Heinlein
• Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. Jimmy Buffet
• To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. Proverb
• Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. Publilius Syrus
• It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self. François de la Rochefoucauld
• All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. Alexis Carrel
• Good advice is beyond all price. Proverb
• Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Proverb
• A fool thinks he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. Proverbs 12:15
• All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. Alexis Carrel
• Let no man under-value the price of a virtuous woman’s counsel. George Chapman
• Those that won’t be counselled can’t be helped. Benjamin Franklin
• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Ben Johnson
• Good council has no price. Giuseppe Mazzini
• Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Seneca
• To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. Churton Collins

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Make sure you only follow advice when it makes sense and feels right

• 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. David Seabury
• Seek advice but use your own common sense. Yiddish Proverb
• 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. Joan Rivers
• The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. Pierre Charron

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If it doesn’t feel right, feel free to do the opposite!

• If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times. Anselm Feuerbach
• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. K. Chesterton

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Don’t disregard good advice out of pride

• There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. La Bruyère
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Don’t let advice interfere with following your heart

• Accept good advice gracefully–as long as it doesn’t interfere with what you intended to do in the first place. Gene Brown
• The heart,  Follow your own path

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Judge the quality of advice by the quality of the life of the person giving it

• The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Douglas Adams
• Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop
• Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. Sidney J. Harris

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At the end of the day, it’s you who must motivate yourself to do something

• No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement. Mark Barnes
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The best way to succeed is to follow the advice you give others

• The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
• Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
• It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. William Shakespeare
• It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Mary Wortley Montagu
• I always pass on good advice. It’s the only thing to do with it.  It is never any use to oneself.  Oscar Wilde
• I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Mary Wortley Montagu
• She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). Lewis Carroll
• I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it. Laurell K. Hamilton
• The counsel you would have another keep, first keep yourself. Proverb
• People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. Brendan Francis
• The best advice we can give ourselves is the loving advice we’d give somebody else. I can get some great clarity during my own workshops. Jan Denise

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Nobody can give you better advice than yourself

• Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. Cicero
• You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you. Sathya Sai Baba
• Seek always for the answers within. Be not influenced by those around you – by their thoughts or their words. Eileen Caddy
• Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them. Debbie Ford
• The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look listen and trust. Cherie Carter-Scott
• To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. Joe Cordare
• Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. William S. Burroughs

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Don’t give advice unless specifically asked – and even then, be wary…

• Never give advice unless asked. German Proverb
• I listen and give input only if somebody asks. Barbara Bush
• Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it. Proverb
• It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. Anne Tyler
• Until thy feet have trod the road, advise not wayside folk. Rudyard Kipling
• Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of others. Anthony Shaftesbury
• Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. Italian Proverb
• No vice is so bad as advice. Marie Dressler
• Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers
• Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don’t fool with it. Randy Pausch
• 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

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… because giving advice can backfire badly at times

• Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. R.R. Tolkien
• I always advise people never to give advice. G. Wodehouse
• It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde
• If you want people to notice your faults, start giving advice. Kelly Stephens
• Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. George Chapman
• The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. Samuel Johnson
• Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. Lope de Vega

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It’s all too easy to give advice to others when sitting on the outside

• It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. Aeschylus
• It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. Aeschylus
• Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the labouring vessel from the land. Arthur Helps
• One can advise comfortably from a safe port. Friedrich von Schiller

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Don’t expect people to follow your advice – and be indifferent either way

• Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson
• The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith
• Advice is least heeded when most needed. English Proverb
• To advise is not to compel. Anton Chekhov
• Give advice; if people don’t listen, let adversity teach them. Ethiopian Proverb
• Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. Kahlil Gibran
• Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it. Benjamin Franklin

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Peoples’ motives for asking for advice can often be a little dubious

• When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. Charles Varlet de La Grange
• No one wants advice – only corroboration. John Steinbeck
• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. Erica Jong
• When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise. Lord Chesterfield
• To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. John Churton Collins
• As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it. Alexandre Dumas

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Realise that when people ask your advice, they’ve often already decided anyway

• To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on. Ambrose Bierce
• Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. Josh Billings
• Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. Knegge
• People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes. Lady Blessington

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Remember that a good example to follow is often better than the best advice

• He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both… Francis Bacon
• If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to be a failure, I would seek advice from men who never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they do. Joseph H. Wade
• A good example has twice the value of good advice.
• Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. Robert Cecil
• It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. Saint Francis of Assisi
• A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.
• People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

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It’s better to help people out rather than dispensing with advice

• Advising is easier than helping. German Proverb
• Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. Marquis de Vauvenargues

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The best advisors let people make their own mistakes

• The best advisors … give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is. Philip Brooks
• 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
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The best advisor of all is a good scare

• Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare. Al Batt
• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. Edgar Watson Howe

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• When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. Henry Wheeler
• In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. Solon
• Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Whatever your advice, make it brief. Horace
• In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. Solon
• The art of giving advice is to make the recipient believe he thought of it himself. Frank Tyger
• Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk. Valencia Mackie
• I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions. Joyce Brothers
• Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They’ll think you’re a genius. Connie Brockway

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• Give advice to your children while they’re young enough to believe you know what you’re talking about.
• 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

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• In those days, he was wiser than he is now — he used frequently to take my advice. Winston Churchill
• We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Jack Herbert
• Advice is something we test on others to see if it really works.
• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. Erica Jong
• Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. François La Rochefoucauld
• Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. François de la Rochefoucauld
• The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde
• Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They’ll think you’re a genius. Connie Brockway
• A bad cold wouldn’t be so annoying if it weren’t for the advice of our friends. Kin Hubbard
• A consultant is someone you pay a hundred-dollars-an-hour to give you the same advice you ignore from your assistant. Robert Orben
• Advice for bachelors: Never chase a woman you can’t outrun.
• Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice. Oscar Wilde
• Advice is like castor oil easy to give but dreadful to take. Josh Billings
• Don’t give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can’t wear in the evening. Oscar Wilde
• Advice: the smallest current coin. Ambrose Bierce
• Confucius say is better to give than receive – especially advice.   Confucius
• Don’t be discouraged if your children reject your advice; years later they will offer it to their offspring.
• Counsel: Advice with a price tag.
• For sincere advice and the correct time call any number at random at 3:00 a.m. Steve Martin

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