Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Knebel, Karl Von

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Solon

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

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

Aeschylus

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

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

10.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

11.

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

Anne Tyler

12.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

13.

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

14.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

15.

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

Collins, John Churton

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

18.

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

Lope de Vega

19.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Hanson, Lord

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

33.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

34.

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

35.

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

Oscar Wilde

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Herbert, Jack

38.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

39.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

40.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Knegge

43.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

Alger, William R.

50.

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

Ball, Ivern