Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never give advice unless asked.

- German Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

2.

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

Randy Pausch

3.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

English Proverb

5.

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

Collins, John Churton

6.

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

Solon

7.

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

Knegge

8.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Erica Jong

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

18.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

19.

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

Ball, Ivern

20.

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

Aeschylus

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

25.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

27.

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

Chapman, George

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

Bible

32.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

34.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

35.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

36.

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

37.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

38.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

39.

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

40.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

41.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

42.

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

Hanson, Lord

43.

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

44.

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

Talmud, The

45.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

47.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

48.

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

Gore Vidal

49.

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

Billings, Josh

50.

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