Motivational Quotes

Advice

Ask advice only of your equals.

- Danish Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Lope de Vega

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

Cosby, Bill

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Solon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bible

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

10.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

11.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

14.

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

Erica Jong

15.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

17.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

18.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

19.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Algren, Nelson

20.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]

Bible

22.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

23.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

24.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

28.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Zaslow, Jeff

29.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

30.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

32.

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

33.

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

Talmud, The

34.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

35.

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

Sidney J. Harris

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 is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

Herbert, Jack

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

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

42.

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

Anne Tyler

43.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

44.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

47.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

50.

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