Motivational Quotes

Advice

Ask advice only of your equals.

- Danish Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

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

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

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

11.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herbert, Jack

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Randy Pausch

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

Collins, John Churton

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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

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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

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Ball, Ivern

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Bible

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Lope de Vega

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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

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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

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

Gore Vidal

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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

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