Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Anne Tyler

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Hanson, Lord

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

15.

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

Talmud, The

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

18.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

19.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

20.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

25.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

26.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

27.

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

28.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

29.

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

Aeschylus

30.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

34.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Zaslow, Jeff

36.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

37.

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

Ball, Ivern

38.

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

39.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Randy Pausch

41.

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

Alger, William R.

42.

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

43.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Gore Vidal

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Erica Jong