Motivational Quotes

Advice

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Advice

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Zaslow, Jeff

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Bacon, Francis

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

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

Gray, John

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.

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

Herbert, Jack

11.

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

Talmud, The

12.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Collins, John Churton

18.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

I Ching

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

English Proverb

24.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

25.

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

Anne Tyler

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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Cosby, Bill

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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

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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

35.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Always be nice to bankers.Always be nice to pension fund managers.Always be nice to the media.In that order.

Hanson, Lord

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

43.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Alger, William R.

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Proverb, Spanish

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb