Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Solon

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Anne Tyler

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Bacon, Francis

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

15.

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

16.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

17.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ball, Ivern

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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

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Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]

Letterman, David

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

Billings, Josh

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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Algren, Nelson

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

Aeschylus

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

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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

32.

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Shakespeare, William

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Erica Jong

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

45.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

46.

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

Talmud, The

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

Bible

48.

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

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

Collins, John Churton