Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Proverb, Chinese

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Randy Pausch

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

English Proverb

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

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

Collins, John Churton

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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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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Erica Jong

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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Bible

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

Solon

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Cosby, Bill

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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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

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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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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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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius