Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Gordon R. Dickson

Best Quotes about Advice

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Talmud, The

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Masson, Thomas L.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Billings, Josh

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

English Proverb

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

Bible

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

12.

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

Gore Vidal

13.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

16.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

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

Solon

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

22.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

23.

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

Collins, John Churton

24.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

25.

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

26.

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

Alger, William R.

27.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

29.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

30.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

31.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

32.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

33.

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

Ball, Ivern

34.

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

35.

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

Randy Pausch

36.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

38.

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

39.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

40.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

41.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

42.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

43.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

44.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

Lope de Vega

46.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bible