Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Knebel, Karl Von

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oscar Wilde

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

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Chapman, George

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.

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

13.

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

Collins, John Churton

14.

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

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.

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

17.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Anne Tyler

19.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Solon

23.

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

Collins, John Churton

24.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

26.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

27.

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

Alger, William R.

28.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

34.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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]