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

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

Gore Vidal

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

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Solon

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Chapman, George

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Alger, William R.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

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

Collins, John Churton

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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

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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Erica Jong

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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

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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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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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Aeschylus

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Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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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

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

40.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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

Collins, John Churton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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