Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Chapman, George

2.

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

Herbert, Jack

3.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

4.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

7.

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

8.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

9.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

11.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Randy Pausch

14.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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.

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

17.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Anne Tyler

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

21.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

22.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

23.

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

Collins, John Churton

24.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

25.

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

English Proverb

26.

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

Solon

27.

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.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

Bible

32.

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

Ball, Ivern

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

36.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

37.

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

Cosby, Bill

38.

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

39.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

40.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

41.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Dahlberg, Edward

42.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

43.

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

Gore Vidal

44.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

45.

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

Oscar Wilde

46.

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

47.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Hanson, Lord

50.

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

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