Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Chapman, George

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

Bible

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

Randy Pausch

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

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

10.

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

Ball, Ivern

11.

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

12.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Herbert, Jack

19.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

24.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

25.

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

26.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

29.

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

Knegge

30.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

31.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

32.

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

Solon

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

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

Anne Tyler

38.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

39.

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

Sidney J. Harris

40.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

42.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

43.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

44.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

45.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

Erica Jong

48.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De