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

1.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

2.

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

3.

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

Collins, John Churton

4.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

5.

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

Herbert, Jack

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

8.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

9.

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Chapman, George

13.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

14.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Erica Jong

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

22.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

23.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

24.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

25.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

26.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

28.

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

Lope de Vega

29.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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.

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

Cosby, Bill

34.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

36.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

37.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

38.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

39.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

41.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

42.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Randy Pausch

46.

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

47.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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

Aeschylus