Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Advice

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

English Proverb

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Erica Jong

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Shakespeare, William

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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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

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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Alger, William R.

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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope de Vega

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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

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

Gore Vidal

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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

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Knegge

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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