Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Ball, Ivern

Best Quotes about Advice

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Hanson, Lord

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.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

11.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

12.

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

Aeschylus

13.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

15.

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

16.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Lope de Vega

23.

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

24.

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

Herbert, Jack

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Proverb

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

29.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

32.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

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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

35.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

36.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

37.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

38.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Erica Jong

42.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

43.

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

44.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

45.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

46.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

47.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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

49.

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

Bible

50.

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

Talmud, The