Motivational Quotes

Advice

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

3.

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

Aeschylus

4.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

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

Solon

6.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

7.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

8.

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

Johnson, Samuel

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

15.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

18.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Randy Pausch

20.

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

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

23.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

24.

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

Ball, Ivern

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Herbert, Jack

27.

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

28.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

29.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

30.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

31.

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

32.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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.

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

Alger, William R.

35.

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

36.

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

Hanson, Lord

37.

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

38.

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

Anne Tyler

39.

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]