Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Cosby, Bill

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Billings, Josh

10.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Ball, Ivern

16.

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

17.

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

Herbert, Jack

18.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

19.

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

20.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

21.

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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Erica Jong

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

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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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

37.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

38.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

39.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

40.

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