Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Alger, William R.

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

2.

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

3.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

4.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

5.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

8.

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

Lope de Vega

9.

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

10.

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

Sidney J. Harris

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

13.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

22.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

23.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

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

25.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

26.

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

27.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

28.

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

29.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

30.

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

31.

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

Herbert, Jack

32.

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

Randy Pausch

33.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

34.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Chapman, George

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Oscar Wilde

39.

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

40.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

43.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

44.

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

Collins, John Churton

45.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Knegge

47.

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

Ball, Ivern

48.

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

49.

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

Solon

50.

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

Hanson, Lord

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