Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Erica Jong

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Talmud, The

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Cosby, Bill

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

18.

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

19.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

20.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

24.

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

Collins, John Churton

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

27.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

28.

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

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.

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

Lope de Vega

31.

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

Knegge

32.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

33.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

34.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

37.

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

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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

39.

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

Randy Pausch

40.

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

41.

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

Chapman, George

42.

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

43.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

Ball, Ivern

46.

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

Solon

47.

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

48.

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

Alger, William R.

49.

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

50.

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

Billings, Josh