Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Advice

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Bible

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

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

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

Gore Vidal

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

Solon

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

10.

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

11.

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

Ball, Ivern

12.

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

Chapman, George

13.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

14.

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

15.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

16.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

19.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

20.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

21.

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

Randy Pausch

22.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

23.

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

Hanson, Lord

24.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

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

Lope de Vega

34.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Knegge

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

43.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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.

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

49.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

50.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James