Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Collins, John Churton

Best Quotes about Advice

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

English Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Billings, Josh

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

Knegge

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Randy Pausch

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

10.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

13.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

14.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

17.

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

18.

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

Bible

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Lope de Vega

22.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

24.

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

Herbert, Jack

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Collins, John Churton

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

Always be nice to bankers.Always be nice to pension fund managers.Always be nice to the media.In that order.

Hanson, Lord

31.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

35.

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