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

1.

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

2.

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

Sidney J. Harris

3.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

4.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

5.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

6.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

7.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

9.

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

10.

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

Randy Pausch

11.

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

Anne Tyler

12.

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

13.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

14.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

21.

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

Lope de Vega

22.

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

English Proverb

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

28.

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

Aeschylus

29.

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

Collins, John Churton

30.

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

Ball, Ivern

31.

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

Herbert, Jack

32.

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

33.

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

Hanson, Lord

34.

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

35.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

39.

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

40.

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

Gore Vidal

41.

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

Solon

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

Cosby, Bill

47.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.