Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Alger, William R.

Best Quotes about Advice

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

English Proverb

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

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

Knegge

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Gibran, Kahlil

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Talmud, The

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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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

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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Alger, William R.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Gore Vidal

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Anne Tyler

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

31.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Collins, John Churton

33.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

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

Lope de Vega

43.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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