Motivational Quotes

Advice

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

3.

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

4.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

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

Gore Vidal

6.

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

Bible

7.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

8.

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

Collins, John Churton

9.

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

Erica Jong

10.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Alger, William R.

12.

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

English Proverb

13.

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

Anne Tyler

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

16.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

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

20.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

24.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

25.

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

26.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

27.

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

28.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

29.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Talmud, The

32.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Chapman, George

34.

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

Hanson, Lord

35.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

36.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

40.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

41.

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

Herbert, Jack

42.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Randy Pausch

47.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

48.

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

49.

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