Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Randy Pausch

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aeschylus

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

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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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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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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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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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

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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

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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