Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Hanson, Lord

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Ball, Ivern

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Alger, William R.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

10.

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

11.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

12.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

13.

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

14.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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

18.

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

English Proverb

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Herbert, Jack

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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Knegge

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

24.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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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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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Chapman, George

31.

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

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

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

Lope de Vega

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.