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

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

Knebel, Karl Von

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Billings, Josh

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dahlberg, Edward

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

17.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

21.

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

Lope de Vega

22.

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

23.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

24.

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

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

30.

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

31.

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

Chapman, George

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

34.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

35.

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

Collins, John Churton

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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

38.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

41.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

45.

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

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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