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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Lope de Vega

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

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

10.

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

11.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

14.

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

Anne Tyler

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

Ball, Ivern

17.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

18.

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

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

English Proverb

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Solon

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

25.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Knegge

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

34.

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

Alger, William R.

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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

36.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Sidney J. Harris

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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

40.

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

Gore Vidal

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

49.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von