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.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

2.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

3.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

4.

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

5.

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

Herbert, Jack

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

9.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

11.

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

12.

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

Hanson, Lord

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

15.

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

Erica Jong

16.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

17.

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

18.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

19.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

20.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

21.

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

22.

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

Aeschylus

23.

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

24.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

English Proverb

26.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

27.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

28.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

29.

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

Alger, William R.

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Cosby, Bill

35.

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

36.

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

Solon

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

Randy Pausch

41.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

43.

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

Ball, Ivern

44.

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

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

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