Motivational Quotes

Advice

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Talmud, The

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Solon

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

13.

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

14.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

Herbert, Jack

16.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

18.

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

Erica Jong

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Anne Tyler

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Melbourne, Lord

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

Cosby, Bill

26.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

27.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

28.

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

Randy Pausch

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Aeschylus

35.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

38.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

39.

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

Gore Vidal

40.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Lope de Vega

42.

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

Sidney J. Harris

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

46.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

48.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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