Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Randy Pausch

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Anne Tyler

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

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

Chapman, George

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

12.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Bible

14.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

17.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

18.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

19.

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

20.

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

Solon

21.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Herbert, Jack

22.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

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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

27.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

28.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Sidney J. Harris

31.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

32.

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

33.

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

Aeschylus

34.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

35.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

36.

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

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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

38.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Gore Vidal

40.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

41.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

42.

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

43.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

45.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Bible

48.

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

Knegge

49.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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