Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Helps, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

2.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

3.

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

Ball, Ivern

4.

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

5.

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

Chapman, George

6.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

7.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

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

9.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

12.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

13.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

14.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

15.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

16.

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

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

20.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

21.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Aeschylus

24.

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

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.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

27.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

28.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

30.

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

Bible

31.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

English Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Lope de Vega

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

41.

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