Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Helps, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

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

Macaulay, J. C.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Aeschylus

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

10.

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

Erica Jong

11.

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

Chapman, George

12.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

13.

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

Knegge

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

17.

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

Ball, Ivern

18.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

19.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Solon

21.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

22.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

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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

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Gore Vidal

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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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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 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

33.

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

34.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Shakespeare, William

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