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

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Solon

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

Knegge

10.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

11.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Masson, Thomas L.

13.

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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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

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

Billings, Josh

17.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

18.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

19.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

I Ching

24.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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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

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

Alger, William R.

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Talmud, The

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Anne Tyler

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

39.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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

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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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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Collins, John Churton