Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Aurobindo, Ghose

Best Quotes about Advice

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alger, William R.

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Solon

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

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Knegge

18.

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

19.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

20.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

23.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

24.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

25.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

26.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

30.

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

Lope de Vega

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

33.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Seabury, David

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

36.

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

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

Bible

38.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

39.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

Ask advice only of your equals.