Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

3.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

4.

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

5.

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

Shakespeare, William

6.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

7.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

8.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

9.

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

Aeschylus

13.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

14.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

15.

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

Anne Tyler

16.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Sidney J. Harris

19.

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

Gore Vidal

20.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Cosby, Bill

23.

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

Knegge

24.

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

Collins, John Churton

25.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Hanson, Lord

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

33.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

34.

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

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.

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

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

Collins, John Churton

38.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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