Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

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Best Quotes about Advice

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Anne Tyler

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Sidney J. Harris

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

13.

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

Talmud, The

14.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Helps, Sir Arthur

15.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

16.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Chapman, George

17.

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

Knegge

18.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

19.

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

20.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

21.

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

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Hanson, Lord

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Collins, John Churton

27.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

28.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

33.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Gore Vidal

36.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

40.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

41.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

42.

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

43.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

44.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

45.

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

46.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

47.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Oscar Wilde

49.

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

50.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De