Motivational Quotes

Advice

The worst men often give the best advice.

- Bailey, Philip James

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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.

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

12.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

15.

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

Gore Vidal

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

19.

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

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

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

Solon

24.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Billings, Josh

25.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

29.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Aurobindo, Ghose

30.

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

31.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

36.

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

Alger, William R.

37.

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

Talmud, The

38.

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

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

41.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

42.

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

Ball, Ivern

43.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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