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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chapman, George

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

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

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

Aeschylus

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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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

16.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

17.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

19.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

20.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

23.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

24.

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

25.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

Bible

28.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

29.

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

Alger, William R.

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

Erica Jong

34.

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

35.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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

37.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Billings, Josh

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

Knegge

41.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

43.

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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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

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

Anne Tyler

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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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

50.

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