Motivational Quotes

Advice

Ask advice only of your equals.

- Danish Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aeschylus

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Anne Tyler

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

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

Erica Jong

12.

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

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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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

16.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

17.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Bible

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Knegge

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

27.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Solon

30.

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

Alger, William R.

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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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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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

43.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Collins, John Churton