Motivational Quotes

Advice

Ask advice only of your equals.

- Danish Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Johnson, Samuel

2.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

3.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Fowler, Gene

4.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

5.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

9.

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

Knegge

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Herbert, Jack

12.

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

Solon

13.

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

Hanson, Lord

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

Cosby, Bill

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Talmud, The

18.

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

Bible

19.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Erica Jong

24.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

25.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

26.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

27.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

31.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

32.

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

Lope de Vega

33.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

34.

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

Chapman, George

35.

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

36.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

37.

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

Collins, John Churton

38.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

39.

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

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

42.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

43.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.