Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Erica Jong

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

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Knegge

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

10.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

11.

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

Ball, Ivern

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

Alger, William R.

14.

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

Gore Vidal

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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

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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

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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

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

23.

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

Talmud, The

24.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

25.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

26.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

27.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Cosby, Bill

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

33.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

34.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

36.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

37.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

46.

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

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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