Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

2.

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

3.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

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

Gore Vidal

5.

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

6.

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

English Proverb

7.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

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

Randy Pausch

10.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

15.

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

Talmud, The

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

19.

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

20.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

21.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

22.

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

23.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

24.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

27.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Ball, Ivern

30.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

31.

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

Erica Jong

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Billings, Josh

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

40.

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

41.

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

Solon

42.

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

43.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.