Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Alger, William R.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Cosby, Bill

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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

12.

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

Erica Jong

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

16.

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

Anne Tyler

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

18.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

19.

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

Solon

20.

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

Ball, Ivern

21.

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

22.

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

Aeschylus

23.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

24.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

25.

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

Lope de Vega

26.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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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

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

Macaulay, J. C.

34.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

37.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Knegge

40.

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

Talmud, The

41.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

44.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

45.

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

46.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

48.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

49.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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