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

1.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

2.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

6.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

English Proverb

8.

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

9.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

13.

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

14.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Collins, John Churton

15.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

16.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

17.

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

Solon

18.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Erica Jong

20.

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

Gore Vidal

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.

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

23.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

24.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

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

28.

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

Herbert, Jack

29.

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

30.

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

Cosby, Bill

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Oscar Wilde

33.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

34.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

35.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

36.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

38.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

39.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Anne Tyler

43.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Randy Pausch

48.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

49.

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

50.

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

Sidney J. Harris