Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

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

Randy Pausch

5.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

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

Talmud, The

11.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Sidney J. Harris

14.

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

Hanson, Lord

15.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Knegge

19.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

20.

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

Bible

21.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Herbert, Jack

22.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

23.

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

Anne Tyler

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

Erica Jong

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

39.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

40.

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

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

43.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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