Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

5.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

6.

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

Collins, John Churton

7.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

14.

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

Herbert, Jack

15.

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

Cosby, Bill

16.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

17.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

18.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

19.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

20.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

21.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

22.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

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

27.

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

28.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Anne Tyler

30.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

32.

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

Hanson, Lord

33.

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

34.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Ball, Ivern

38.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

42.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

43.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

44.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

45.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

46.

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