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

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

English Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Billings, Josh

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

Anne Tyler

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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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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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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

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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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

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

Randy Pausch

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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

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

Ball, Ivern

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

Alger, William R.

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

Gore Vidal

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Bible

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Solon

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Knegge

46.

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

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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Chapman, George

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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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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

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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