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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

2.

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

Alger, William R.

3.

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

4.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

5.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

7.

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

8.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Knegge

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

14.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

15.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Oscar Wilde

18.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

23.

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

Randy Pausch

24.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

25.

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

Herbert, Jack

26.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

27.

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

28.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

29.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Collins, John Churton

30.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

31.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

32.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

33.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Solon

36.

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

37.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

42.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

Lope de Vega

44.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

45.

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

Anne Tyler

46.

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

47.

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

Aeschylus

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Wilde, Oscar

50.

Never give advice unless asked.