Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Aurobindo, Ghose

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Chapman, George

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

Billings, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

I Ching

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Gore Vidal

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

Collins, John Churton

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

15.

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

16.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

English Proverb

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

21.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

22.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Solon

27.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

28.

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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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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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

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

32.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

33.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

34.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Ball, Ivern

39.

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

Hanson, Lord

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

42.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Aeschylus

44.

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

45.

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

Collins, John Churton

46.

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

Erica Jong

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

Billings, Josh

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

49.

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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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