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

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

Anne Tyler

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Cosby, Bill

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

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Lope de Vega

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

10.

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

Chapman, George

11.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

13.

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

Aeschylus

14.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

15.

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

Solon

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Ball, Ivern

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Alger, William R.

24.

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

25.

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

Herbert, Jack

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

28.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Billings, Josh

30.

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

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

English Proverb

32.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Macaulay, J. C.

35.

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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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hanson, Lord

39.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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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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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

42.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Randy Pausch

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

49.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

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