Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Knebel, Karl Von

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Zaslow, Jeff

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Masson, Thomas L.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

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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

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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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

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

Chapman, George

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Gore Vidal

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

Aeschylus

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

Bible

28.

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

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alger, William R.

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

Erica Jong

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

46.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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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

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

Talmud, The

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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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