Motivational Quotes

Advice

Whatever advice you give, be short.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

3.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Chesterfield, Lord

4.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

5.

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

Lope de Vega

6.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

7.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

13.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

16.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

17.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Collins, John Churton

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Algren, Nelson

22.

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

23.

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

English Proverb

24.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Alger, William R.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Hanson, Lord

30.

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

Gore Vidal

31.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

32.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

33.

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

Randy Pausch

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Anne Tyler

36.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

37.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

38.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

39.

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

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

41.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

42.

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

43.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

45.

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

Collins, John Churton

46.

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

Erica Jong

47.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

49.

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

Aeschylus

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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