Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Shaw, Henry Wheeler

Best Quotes about Advice

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

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

Knebel, Karl Von

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Billings, Josh

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

Knegge

11.

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

Alger, William R.

12.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

13.

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

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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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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

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

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

Solon

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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

Randy Pausch

26.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

28.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

29.

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

30.

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

Erica Jong

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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

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

34.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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]