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

1.

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

2.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

3.

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

Sidney J. Harris

4.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

5.

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

Collins, John Churton

6.

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

Hanson, Lord

7.

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

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Cosby, Bill

15.

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

Alger, William R.

16.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

17.

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

Herbert, Jack

18.

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

Anne Tyler

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

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

22.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

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

24.

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

25.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

26.

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

27.

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

English Proverb

28.

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

29.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Melbourne, Lord

30.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

33.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

35.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

36.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

38.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

39.

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

Randy Pausch

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

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

Erica Jong

42.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

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

Bible

46.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

47.

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

Aeschylus

48.

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

49.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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

Oscar Wilde