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.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

2.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

3.

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

Oscar Wilde

4.

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

Wilde, Oscar

5.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

7.

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

Talmud, The

8.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

9.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

10.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

11.

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

Cosby, Bill

12.

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

13.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

21.

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

Collins, John Churton

22.

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

Herbert, Jack

23.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

24.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

25.

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

26.

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

Aeschylus

27.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

28.

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

Sidney J. Harris

29.

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

English Proverb

30.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

31.

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

32.

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.

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

34.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

36.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

37.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.