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

1.

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

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

Alger, William R.

4.

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

Billings, Josh

5.

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

6.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

7.

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

8.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

9.

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

10.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

11.

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

Anne Tyler

12.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Ball, Ivern

14.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

15.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

16.

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

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

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

22.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

Erica Jong

28.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

29.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

30.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

31.

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

32.

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

English Proverb

33.

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

Gore Vidal

34.

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

35.

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

Talmud, The

36.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

Randy Pausch

40.

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

41.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Collins, John Churton

42.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

43.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

44.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

45.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

46.

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

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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