Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Hanson, Lord

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Knegge

2.

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

Lope de Vega

3.

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

Solon

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

6.

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

Sidney J. Harris

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

9.

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

10.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

11.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Hanson, Lord

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

19.

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

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

22.

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

23.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

24.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Gore Vidal

33.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

34.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

37.

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

Talmud, The

38.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

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

Aeschylus

45.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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