Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Oscar Wilde

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Alger, William R.

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

12.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

14.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

15.

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

16.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

17.

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

Collins, John Churton

18.

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

19.

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

Knegge

20.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

Bible

22.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

Chapman, George

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

29.

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

Solon

30.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

31.

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

Sidney J. Harris

32.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

33.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Cosby, Bill

37.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

38.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope de Vega

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

43.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

Talmud, The

45.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

46.

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

47.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

49.

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

Gore Vidal

50.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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