Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Advice

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

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

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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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

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Collins, John Churton

16.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

19.

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

20.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

21.

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

22.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Oscar Wilde

24.

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

Sidney J. Harris

25.

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

26.

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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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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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

29.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Bible

31.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Cosby, Bill

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Solon

40.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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.