Motivational Quotes

Advice

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best Quotes about Advice

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Proverb, Chinese

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Herbert, Jack

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Chesterfield, Lord

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

Bible

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Shakespeare, William

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Brendan Francis

10.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

12.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

14.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Knebel, Karl Von

15.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Scott Berkun

17.

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving she may sound to him.

Gray, John

18.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Masson, Thomas L.

19.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

20.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Zaslow, Jeff

21.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler

22.

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

24.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Billings, Josh

25.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

26.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

27.

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]

Bible

28.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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.

Fowler, Gene

31.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

32.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

33.

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.

Hannah Whitall Smith

34.

Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

Ellen DeGeneres

35.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Proverb

36.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Collins, John Churton

37.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

38.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

40.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

41.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Melbourne, Lord

42.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

43.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

44.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

45.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

46.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

47.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope de Vega

48.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

50.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.