Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aeschylus

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

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Masson, Thomas L.

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

12.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

13.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

Knegge

15.

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

16.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

17.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

18.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

21.

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

22.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

23.

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

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Erica Jong

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

Alger, William R.

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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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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

38.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

40.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

41.

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

Herbert, Jack

42.

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

48.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Solon

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The worst men often give the best advice.