Motivational Quotes

Advice

Ask advice only of your equals.

- Danish Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Cosby, Bill

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Randy Pausch

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Chapman, George

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

12.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

13.

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

Alger, William R.

14.

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

Herbert, Jack

15.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

16.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

17.

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

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

20.

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

Collins, John Churton

21.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

Gray, John

22.

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

Erica Jong

23.

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

24.

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

Ball, Ivern

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

29.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Lope de Vega

31.

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

32.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Hanson, Lord

34.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

35.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

36.

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

37.

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

Aeschylus

38.

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

Anne Tyler

39.

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

English Proverb

40.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

41.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

42.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

43.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

44.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

47.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

48.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

49.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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