Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

2.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Bacon, Francis

3.

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

Erica Jong

4.

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

Herbert, Jack

5.

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

6.

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

Lope de Vega

7.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

8.

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

Gore Vidal

9.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

11.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

12.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

13.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

15.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Aeschylus

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Chapman, George

24.

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

Collins, John Churton

25.

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

English Proverb

26.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

27.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

28.

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

Oscar Wilde

29.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

30.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Alger, William R.

33.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Anne Tyler

35.

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

Billings, Josh

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

39.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

40.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

45.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

46.

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

Collins, John Churton

47.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

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