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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

Alger, William R.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

Herbert, Jack

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Always be nice to bankers.Always be nice to pension fund managers.Always be nice to the media.In that order.

Hanson, Lord

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Knegge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

English Proverb

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

Aeschylus

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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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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Chapman, George

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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

44.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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