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

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Aeschylus

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hanson, Lord

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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Collins, John Churton

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

26.

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

English Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Shakespeare, William

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

33.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

35.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Bible

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

Dahlberg, Edward

38.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Alger, William R.

42.

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

43.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

45.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter