Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

10.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

11.

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

Gore Vidal

12.

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

Cosby, Bill

13.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

17.

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

Collins, John Churton

18.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

21.

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

Knegge

22.

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

23.

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

Ball, Ivern

24.

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

Solon

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

27.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

28.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Aeschylus

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Herbert, Jack

34.

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

Randy Pausch

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

39.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

40.

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

Bible

41.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Alger, William R.

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

46.

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

47.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

48.

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

49.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

50.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius