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

1.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

2.

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

3.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Gore Vidal

7.

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

Billings, Josh

8.

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

English Proverb

9.

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

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

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

Talmud, The

12.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

13.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

14.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

15.

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

16.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Erica Jong

19.

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

Collins, John Churton

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

22.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

23.

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

24.

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

Knegge

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

27.

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

Anne Tyler

28.

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

29.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

30.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

32.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ball, Ivern

34.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

40.

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

Herbert, Jack

41.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

43.

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

44.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

45.

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

Lope de Vega

46.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

47.

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