Motivational Quotes

Advice

Whatever advice you give, be short.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

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

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

4.

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

Collins, John Churton

5.

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

6.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

7.

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

Bible

8.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

9.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

10.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

11.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

12.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

15.

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

Cosby, Bill

16.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

17.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

20.

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

Sidney J. Harris

21.

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

Anne Tyler

22.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

24.

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

Chapman, George

25.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Proverb

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Collins, John Churton

28.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

29.

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

Alger, William R.

30.

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

31.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

32.

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

33.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

35.

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

Aeschylus

36.

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

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

39.

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

40.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

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

Erica Jong

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian