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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hanson, Lord

10.

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

11.

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

Ball, Ivern

12.

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

Solon

13.

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

Knegge

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

Billings, Josh

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

Talmud, The

18.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

19.

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

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

22.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

23.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

24.

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

Anne Tyler

25.

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

Collins, John Churton

26.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

27.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

28.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

29.

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

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30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

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

Erica Jong

38.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

39.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

40.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

42.

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

Alger, William R.

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

48.

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

Lope de Vega

49.

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

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