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

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

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

Talmud, The

10.

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

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

13.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

14.

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

Randy Pausch

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Gore Vidal

18.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

22.

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

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

25.

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

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

Knegge

27.

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

28.

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

English Proverb

29.

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

Anne Tyler

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chapman, George

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

Billings, Josh

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.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

36.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

37.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

38.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

39.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

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

44.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

45.

Ask advice only of your equals.