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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Chapman, George

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Erica Jong

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

12.

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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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

14.

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

Collins, John Churton

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

16.

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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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

18.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

20.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

21.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

22.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

23.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Alger, William R.

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

27.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

29.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Bible

31.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

32.

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

33.

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

English Proverb

34.

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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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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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice