Advice Quotes

"If you want something done, ask a busy person." — Benjamin Franklin
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"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." — Erica Mann Jong
How to Save Your Own Life (1977) Add Category or Author

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make of it." — Marcus Aurelius
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"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic." — Alphonse De Lamartine
Graziella, Pt. IV, ch. 5 (1849) The book's subtitle reads, "A Story of Italian Love." Add Category or Author

"Early to Bed, and Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. " — Benjamin Franklin
Early to Bed, and Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, Or, Early Rising, a Natural, Social, and Religious Duty (1855) Franklin often published proverbs and adages--this one was actually the title of one of his works. Add Category or Author

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing." — Benjamin Franklin
Early American proverbs and proverbial phrases (1977) pg. 42 The above quote was a proverbial phrase and was probably not coined directly by Franklin. Add Category or Author

"Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge." — Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
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"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life." — Titus Maccius Plautus
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"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." — George Sand
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"The only thing that does not change, is change itself." — Leo Veness
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"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." — Sydney Smith
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"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree." — Marian Edelman
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"It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people with the least education or variety of life experiences are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most correct, yet they are more often than not the ones with the most unsolicited advice on how everything should be." — Mike Knezevich
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"I think the best advice really is not to decide too early what you want to be when you grow up, ... Because there are so many options once you get out here in this big world ... you never know which direction fate's going to push you." — Lin Ezell
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"Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools" — Irish Sayings
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"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)" — Lewis Carroll
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"In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice" — Winston Churchill
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully." — Anthony Robbins
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"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire." — Winston Churchill
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