Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Billings, Josh

2.

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

Anne Tyler

3.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

4.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

5.

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

6.

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

Cosby, Bill

7.

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

8.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

9.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

10.

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

Collins, John Churton

11.

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

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

21.

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

Solon

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

25.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

28.

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

Aeschylus

29.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

30.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

31.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

36.

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

37.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

38.

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

Knegge

39.

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

English Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

46.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.