Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Best Quotes about Advice

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gore Vidal

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Hanson, Lord

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Herbert, Jack

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

24.

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Solon

30.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

31.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Erica Jong

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Alger, William R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Collins, John Churton

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Chapman, George

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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 takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Billings, Josh

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

Cosby, Bill