Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Cosby, Bill

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Knegge

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

Aeschylus

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

Bible

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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

10.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

11.

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

Sidney J. Harris

12.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

13.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

14.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

15.

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

16.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

17.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

18.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Gore Vidal

20.

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

21.

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

Chapman, George

22.

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

23.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

24.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

37.

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

38.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

39.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

40.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Alger, William R.

43.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

Hanson, Lord

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Billings, Josh