Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- English Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

2.

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

3.

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

Bible

4.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

5.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

9.

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

15.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

16.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

19.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

20.

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

Sidney J. Harris

21.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

23.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

24.

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

Randy Pausch

25.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

26.

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

Alger, William R.

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

29.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Aeschylus

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Knegge

33.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

34.

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

Anne Tyler

35.

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

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Gore Vidal

38.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

46.

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

Oscar Wilde

47.

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

Hanson, Lord

48.

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

Chapman, George

49.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

50.

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