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

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

Bible

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Hanson, Lord

15.

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

Sidney J. Harris

16.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

17.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Lope de Vega

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

22.

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

Collins, John Churton

23.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Bible

26.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

28.

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

Collins, John Churton

29.

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

Gore Vidal

30.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

35.

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

English Proverb

36.

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

37.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

38.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

39.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

40.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.