Quotes
Quotes about Vice
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
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.
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.
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
A word to the wise ain't necessaryâit's the stupid ones who need the advice.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Never practice two vices at once.
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.
Advice: the smallest current coin.
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.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life.
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
