Motivational Quotes

Advice

The worst men often give the best advice.

- Bailey, Philip James

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Ball, Ivern

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Anne Tyler

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Cosby, Bill

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

10.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

11.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

12.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

13.

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

Knegge

14.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Herbert, Jack

17.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

18.

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

Bible

19.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Aeschylus

30.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

31.

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

Randy Pausch

32.

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

33.

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

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Billings, Josh

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Gore Vidal

39.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

40.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

41.

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

Lope de Vega

42.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

45.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

46.

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

47.

Never give advice unless asked.