Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Advice

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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

2.

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

Lope de Vega

3.

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

4.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

5.

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

8.

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

9.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Ball, Ivern

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Chapman, George

17.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

19.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

20.

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

21.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Gore Vidal

24.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

25.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Alger, William R.

28.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

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

31.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Cosby, Bill

36.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

37.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

38.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

39.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

42.

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

Randy Pausch

43.

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

Oscar Wilde

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Knegge

47.

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

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

50.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop