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

Bible

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Gore Vidal

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Knegge

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

Dahlberg, Edward

10.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

11.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

English Proverb

16.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

17.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

21.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

24.

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

Alger, William R.

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

27.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Erica Jong

31.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

32.

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

33.

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

Lope de Vega

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

38.

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

39.

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

Hanson, Lord

40.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Ball, Ivern

42.

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