Motivational Quotes

Advice

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Bible

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Knegge

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

10.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Collins, John Churton

13.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

14.

Always be nice to bankers.Always be nice to pension fund managers.Always be nice to the media.In that order.

Hanson, Lord

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

18.

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

Lope de Vega

19.

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

20.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

21.

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

22.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Sidney J. Harris

25.

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

Randy Pausch

26.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

27.

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

Ball, Ivern

28.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

29.

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

Billings, Josh

30.

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

31.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Aeschylus

36.

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

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

38.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

39.

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

Anne Tyler

40.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Alger, William R.

41.

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]