Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never give advice unless asked.

- German Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lope de Vega

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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

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

13.

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

Erica Jong

14.

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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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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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

17.

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

18.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Collins, John Churton

20.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

21.

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

Sidney J. Harris

22.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

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

Solon

28.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

34.

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

Herbert, Jack

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

36.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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

40.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Collins, John Churton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Knegge

46.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

47.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay