Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

English Proverb

2.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Gore Vidal

6.

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

Solon

7.

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

Talmud, The

8.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

10.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

11.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

12.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

18.

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

Aeschylus

19.

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

Cosby, Bill

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Bible

22.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

23.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

26.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

27.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Anne Tyler

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

34.

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

Chapman, George

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

37.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

38.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

39.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

40.

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

41.

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

Knegge

42.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.