Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Johnson, Samuel

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Randy Pausch

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

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

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

10.

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

Talmud, The

11.

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

Bible

12.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

15.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Collins, John Churton

17.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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

19.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

22.

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

23.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

24.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

25.

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

26.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

27.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Knegge

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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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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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gore Vidal

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

Erica Jong

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

42.

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

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Proverb, Spanish

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Solon

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

English Proverb

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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

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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