Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Billings, Josh

2.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

3.

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

Hanson, Lord

4.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

5.

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

Johnson, Samuel

6.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

7.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

8.

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

9.

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

Aeschylus

10.

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

11.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

12.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

13.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

14.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

15.

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

20.

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

21.

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

Chapman, George

22.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Ball, Ivern

26.

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

Sidney J. Harris

27.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Gore Vidal

29.

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

30.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

31.

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

32.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

37.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

38.

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

39.

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

Knegge

40.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

41.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

42.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

43.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

44.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

45.

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

46.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

47.

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

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.