Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Advice

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

English Proverb

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

Erica Jong

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Herbert, Jack

10.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

11.

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

Chapman, George

12.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

13.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Cosby, Bill

16.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

17.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

18.

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

19.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

20.

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

21.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

24.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

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

Ball, Ivern

29.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Randy Pausch

31.

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

32.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

33.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

34.

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

Gore Vidal

35.

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

Solon

36.

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Gordon R. Dickson

38.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

42.

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

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Bible

45.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

46.

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