Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Billings, Josh

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

10.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

11.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Ball, Ivern

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Herbert, Jack

16.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

17.

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

18.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

19.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Cosby, Bill

21.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

22.

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

23.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

24.

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

Erica Jong

25.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

Gore Vidal

28.

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

29.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Collins, John Churton

31.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

32.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

33.

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

Talmud, The

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Alger, William R.

38.

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

Aeschylus

39.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

40.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

41.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

42.

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

Randy Pausch

43.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

47.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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]