Motivational Quotes

Advice

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

- Alesandra, Tony

Best Quotes about Advice

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lope de Vega

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

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

10.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

14.

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

Ball, Ivern

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Solon

17.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

18.

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

Hanson, Lord

19.

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

20.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

21.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

22.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

27.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

28.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

29.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

32.

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

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

Gore Vidal

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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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Randy Pausch

41.

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

42.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

Knegge

47.

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

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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