Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never give advice unless asked.

- German Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Collins, John Churton

2.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

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

5.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

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

8.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

9.

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

10.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

11.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

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

Ball, Ivern

13.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Solon

15.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

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

Gore Vidal

18.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

19.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

20.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

21.

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

Aeschylus

22.

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

Anne Tyler

23.

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

24.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

27.

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

28.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

English Proverb

31.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

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

Chapman, George

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Herbert, Jack

37.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

38.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

39.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

Erica Jong

44.

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

Bible

45.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.