Motivational Quotes

Advice

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Lope de Vega

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

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

Alger, William R.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Erica Jong

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

Talmud, The

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

11.

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

12.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

13.

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

14.

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

Randy Pausch

15.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

16.

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

17.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

20.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Chapman, George

24.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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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

28.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

29.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

32.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

36.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

39.

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

Sidney J. Harris

40.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

41.

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

Collins, John Churton

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To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Knegge

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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

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

Collins, John Churton

46.

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

Gore Vidal

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

Solon

48.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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