Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

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

Randy Pausch

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Bible

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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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

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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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Churchill, Winston

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

English Proverb

19.

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

Alger, William R.

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Sidney J. Harris

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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

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

Gore Vidal

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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

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Solon

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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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

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Billings, Josh

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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