Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Solon

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

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

Ball, Ivern

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

10.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

11.

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

Lope de Vega

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

14.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Aeschylus

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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

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

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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

20.

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

21.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Knegge

24.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

25.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Hanson, Lord

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

31.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Bible

34.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

35.

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Talmud, The

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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To advise is easier than to help.