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

1.

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

Ball, Ivern

2.

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

3.

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

Knegge

4.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

6.

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

7.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

8.

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

9.

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

Collins, John Churton

10.

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

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

13.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

Talmud, The

16.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Chapman, George

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

26.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

27.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Sidney J. Harris

29.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

33.

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

Gore Vidal

34.

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

35.

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

Randy Pausch

36.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

37.

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

Aeschylus

38.

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

39.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

40.

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

41.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

43.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

46.

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