Motivational Quotes

Advice

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

2.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

6.

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

Ball, Ivern

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Solon

10.

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

Erica Jong

11.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

12.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

15.

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

16.

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

Hanson, Lord

17.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

18.

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

19.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

20.

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

21.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

22.

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

Chapman, George

23.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Anne Tyler

28.

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

Randy Pausch

29.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

30.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

34.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

35.

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

Alger, William R.

36.

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

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

40.

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

41.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

42.

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

Billings, Josh

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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