Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Knebel, Karl Von

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

2.

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

Herbert, Jack

3.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

4.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

5.

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

Johnson, Samuel

6.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

7.

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

8.

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

Oscar Wilde

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

11.

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

Ball, Ivern

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Alger, William R.

17.

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

Gore Vidal

18.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

19.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

20.

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

Erica Jong

21.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

22.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

25.

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

Randy Pausch

26.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

English Proverb

28.

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

29.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Collins, John Churton

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Collins, John Churton

39.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

40.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

43.

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

Solon

44.

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

Cosby, Bill

45.

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

46.

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

Hanson, Lord

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

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

49.

The worst men often give the best advice.