A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

- Jos Bergamin

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

- Carl Rowan

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

- Aesop

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

- Erica Jong

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

- Timothy Leary

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

- William Feather

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

- Mason Cooley

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

- Mason Cooley

Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one's conduct.

- Chinese Proverbs

Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears.

- Chinese Proverbs

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

- Jean Paul Richter

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Johann Von Schiller

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

- Gurdjieff

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

- Nagarjuna

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

- Aristotle

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

- Bhagavad Gita

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin