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

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Alger, William R.

12.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

13.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

15.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

16.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

17.

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

18.

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

Erica Jong

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

22.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23.

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

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

28.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Knebel, Karl Von

29.

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

English Proverb

30.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

31.

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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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

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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

34.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

35.

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

Gore Vidal

37.

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

38.

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

Collins, John Churton

39.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope de Vega

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

42.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

43.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

45.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

46.

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

Sidney J. Harris

47.

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

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