Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Aurobindo, Ghose

Best Quotes about Advice

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

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

English Proverb

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Bible

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Anne Tyler

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Collins, John Churton

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Erica Jong

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gore Vidal

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Knegge

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

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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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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

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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

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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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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

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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