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

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

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Masson, Thomas L.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

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

Bible

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

Randy Pausch

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Collins, John Churton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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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

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Lope de Vega

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Anne Tyler

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Ball, Ivern

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

English Proverb

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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

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Talmud, The

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