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.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

2.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

3.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

4.

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

5.

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

Erica Jong

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

8.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Alger, William R.

12.

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

13.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

14.

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

Solon

15.

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

Cosby, Bill

16.

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

17.

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

Randy Pausch

18.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

19.

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

Chapman, George

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

24.

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

25.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Zaslow, Jeff

28.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

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

31.

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

32.

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

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

34.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

35.

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

36.

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

Hanson, Lord

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

40.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Aeschylus

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Anne Tyler

47.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

48.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

49.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

50.

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