Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Collins, John Churton

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

2.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

3.

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

Sidney J. Harris

4.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

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

Gore Vidal

6.

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

Cosby, Bill

7.

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

Randy Pausch

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

12.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

13.

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

Lope de Vega

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

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

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

18.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

19.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

21.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

22.

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

23.

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

Solon

24.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

28.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

29.

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

Collins, John Churton

30.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

31.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

33.

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

Ball, Ivern

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

36.

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

Chapman, George

37.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

39.

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Herbert, Jack

43.

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

Collins, John Churton

44.

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

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

47.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

48.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

49.

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

50.

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