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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Alger, William R.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Herbert, Jack

14.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

19.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

20.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Ball, Ivern

24.

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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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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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

27.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Knegge

30.

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

Solon

31.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

33.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Randy Pausch

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

37.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

41.

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

Collins, John Churton

43.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Talmud, The

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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