Motivational Quotes

Advice

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

- Alesandra, Tony

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Gore Vidal

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Chapman, George

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Talmud, The

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Solon

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

Randy Pausch

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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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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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Bible

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice