Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Chapman, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Collins, John Churton

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

18.

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

Lope de Vega

19.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

25.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

26.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

29.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

30.

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

31.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

32.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

English Proverb

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

39.

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

Gore Vidal

40.

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

41.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

42.

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

Randy Pausch

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

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

45.

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

Herbert, Jack

46.

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

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

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

49.

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

Cosby, Bill

50.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop