Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

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Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Oscar Wilde

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

5.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

6.

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

Chapman, George

7.

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

Herbert, Jack

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

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10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Alger, William R.

12.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

English Proverb

16.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

18.

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

Collins, John Churton

19.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

20.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

21.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

22.

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

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

26.

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

Anne Tyler

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Randy Pausch

30.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith

33.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

37.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

38.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

39.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

44.

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

Collins, John Churton

45.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

46.

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

47.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

49.

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

Cosby, Bill

50.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb