Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Anne Tyler

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

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

Alger, William R.

3.

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

4.

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

Aeschylus

5.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

Collins, John Churton

7.

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

Lope de Vega

8.

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

12.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

13.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Fowler, Gene

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

16.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

19.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

20.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

21.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

24.

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

Sidney J. Harris

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

English Proverb

27.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

31.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

34.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Hanson, Lord

38.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Anne Tyler

44.

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

Collins, John Churton

45.

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

46.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

47.

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

48.

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

Knegge

49.

Good advice is beyond all price.