Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

2.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

3.

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

4.

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

Hanson, Lord

5.

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

Bible

6.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

7.

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

Anne Tyler

8.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

9.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

11.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

12.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

13.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

16.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

17.

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

18.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

21.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

22.

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

23.

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

Cosby, Bill

24.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Lope de Vega

29.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Chapman, George

33.

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

34.

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

Randy Pausch

35.

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

Collins, John Churton

36.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

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

Billings, Josh

38.

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

39.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

40.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

47.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

48.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

49.

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

Alger, William R.

50.

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