Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gordon R. Dickson

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

10.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

12.

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

13.

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

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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

15.

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

16.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

17.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Proverb

18.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

22.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Erica Jong

25.

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

Aeschylus

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Randy Pausch

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

31.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

32.

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

Bible

33.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

35.

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

Solon

36.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Knegge

39.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

40.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

41.

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

42.

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

Hanson, Lord

43.

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

44.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

45.

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

Anne Tyler

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

49.

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

Alger, William R.

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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