Motivational Quotes

Advice

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Aeschylus

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

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

English Proverb

10.

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

Lope de Vega

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

13.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Erica Jong

15.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

16.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Ball, Ivern

21.

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

Gore Vidal

22.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

23.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

24.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

25.

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

26.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

27.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

28.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

29.

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

30.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

31.

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

Herbert, Jack

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Solon

36.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Billings, Josh

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Masson, Thomas L.

40.

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

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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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

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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

44.

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

Chapman, George

45.

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

Alger, William R.

46.

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