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

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Solon

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

10.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Collins, John Churton

13.

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

14.

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

Alger, William R.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

21.

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

Cosby, Bill

22.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

23.

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

Sidney J. Harris

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

English Proverb

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Collins, John Churton

33.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

35.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

36.

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

37.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

38.

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

Hanson, Lord

39.

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

40.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Chapman, George

43.

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

Lope de Vega

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.

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

Bible

46.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

47.

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

48.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

49.

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

Gordon R. Dickson