Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Advice

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Shakespeare, William

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

Knebel, Karl Von

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving she may sound to him.

Gray, John

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

10.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

14.

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

Solon

15.

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

Bible

16.

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

20.

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

Alger, William R.

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Talmud, The

23.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

25.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Aurobindo, Ghose

26.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler

27.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

28.

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

Herbert, Jack

29.

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

Collins, John Churton

30.

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

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

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

Ball, Ivern

34.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

35.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

36.

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

Randy Pausch

37.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

38.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

40.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

41.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

42.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

45.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

46.

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

Oscar Wilde

47.

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

Hanson, Lord

48.

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

English Proverb

49.

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

50.

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

Cosby, Bill