A Quote by Friedrich Schiller

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. — © Friedrich Schiller
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.
The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves
Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
I don't do talk shows or go on Dr. Phil's show. He's a friend of mine, and, no, he doesn't give me any advice. He doesn't give solicited advice.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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