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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

English Proverb

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

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

11.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

12.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

17.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

18.

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

Cosby, Bill

19.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

20.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

21.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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

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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Aeschylus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

29.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Bible

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

Solon

32.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

33.

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

34.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

37.

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

Talmud, The

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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

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

45.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

46.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

49.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop