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

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

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

Knegge

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Anne Tyler

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Gore Vidal

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

12.

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

13.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

14.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Collins, John Churton

16.

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

Ball, Ivern

17.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

25.

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

Lope de Vega

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Erica Jong

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Solon

30.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

31.

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

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

38.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

40.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

41.

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