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

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Erica Jong

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Ball, Ivern

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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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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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

14.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Gore Vidal

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

19.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

20.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Chapman, George

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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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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

27.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

30.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

31.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

32.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Gordon R. Dickson

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

37.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

39.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

43.

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

Bible

44.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Aeschylus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese