Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Knegge

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

Anne Tyler

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

10.

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

11.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

13.

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

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

16.

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

17.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

20.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

21.

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

Aeschylus

22.

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Collins, John Churton

26.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

27.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

28.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

29.

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

Alger, William R.

30.

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

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

36.

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

37.

Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]

Letterman, David

38.

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

Sidney J. Harris

39.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

40.

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

41.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

Erica Jong

44.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

49.

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.