Motivational Quotes

Advice

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Advice

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Ball, Ivern

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

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

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hanson, Lord

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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

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

18.

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

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

Alger, William R.

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Collins, John Churton

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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

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Bible

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

Solon

34.

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

Gore Vidal

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

Anne Tyler

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

Sidney J. Harris

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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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

39.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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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.