Motivational Quotes

Advice

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

- Ball, Ivern

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Bible

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Erica Jong

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

13.

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

Lope de Vega

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Gore Vidal

17.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

18.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

19.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

20.

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

Anne Tyler

21.

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

22.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Dahlberg, Edward

23.

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

24.

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

Hanson, Lord

25.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

26.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

27.

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

Sidney J. Harris

28.

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

Collins, John Churton

29.

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

Collins, John Churton

30.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

31.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

32.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Aeschylus

34.

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

35.

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

Talmud, The

36.

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

37.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

38.

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

Chapman, George

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

41.

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

Alger, William R.

42.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

44.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.