Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

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

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

Knegge

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Lope de Vega

10.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Randy Pausch

13.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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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

27.

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

28.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

30.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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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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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

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

Aeschylus

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

Solon

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

Billings, Josh

38.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bible

40.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Herbert, Jack

42.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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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

44.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

Chapman, George

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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