Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Helps, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Advice

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gore Vidal

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Bible

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Aeschylus

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

14.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

16.

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

17.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

18.

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

19.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Knegge

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Lope de Vega

23.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

24.

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

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

29.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

30.

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

32.

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

Herbert, Jack

33.

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

34.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

English Proverb

37.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

38.

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

Cosby, Bill

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

42.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

43.

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

44.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Collins, John Churton

46.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

50.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler