Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Advice

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Randy Pausch

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

Sidney J. Harris

10.

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

Collins, John Churton

11.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Erica Jong

12.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

17.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Bible

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.

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

Herbert, Jack

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving she may sound to him.

Gray, John

25.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

26.

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

Chapman, George

27.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Chesterfield, Lord

37.

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

Ball, Ivern

38.

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

39.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

40.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

41.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

42.

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

Collins, John Churton

43.

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

44.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

45.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

46.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler

47.

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

Alger, William R.

48.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

49.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

50.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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