Motivational Quotes

Advice

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope de Vega

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Knegge

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Randy Pausch

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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

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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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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

21.

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

Chapman, George

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Aeschylus

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Billings, Josh

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Solon

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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