Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Advice

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Hanson, Lord

12.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

13.

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

Sidney J. Harris

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Cosby, Bill

19.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Anne Tyler

21.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

24.

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

Ball, Ivern

25.

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

26.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

27.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

30.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

35.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

36.

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

37.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

38.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

39.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

40.

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

Solon

41.

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

42.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

43.

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

Randy Pausch

44.

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

45.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

46.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Oscar Wilde

49.

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

Alger, William R.

50.

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