Advice Quotes

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

“We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.”

Advice Vices Credit

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politician

“We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.”

Time Advice Ordinary

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

“There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.”

Men Advice

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George Herbert

Poet

“Advise none to marry or go to war.”

War Advice

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

“We are never so generous as when giving advice.”

Giving Advice Giving Advice

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George Washington

Military Leader, Politician

“Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.”

Giving Advice

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Leona Lewis

Singer-songwriter

“I don't think I have the right to give someone advice when I don't know them.”

Thinking Giving

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Marielle Heller

Director, Writer

“My advice for anyone wanting to direct is that nobody is going to hand you an opportunity. You have to create your own opportunities and not take no for an answer.”

Hands Opportunity Advice

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

“Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.”

Done Advice Lost

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George Washington

Military Leader, Politician

“The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.”

Heart Advice Humble

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“I'll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don't like what's going on and want to do something about it, and [they ask me] if I can give them some advice as to what they should do, or can I tell them what to read or something.”

Giving Kids Advice

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.”

Way Waiting Advice

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