Motivational Quotes

Advice

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Advice

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Hanson, Lord

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

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

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Bible

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gore Vidal

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ball, Ivern

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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

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Erica Jong

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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