Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Knegge

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

5.

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

Gore Vidal

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

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

Hanson, Lord

8.

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

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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

Aeschylus

10.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

11.

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

12.

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

Anne Tyler

13.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

24.

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

Chapman, George

25.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

26.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

27.

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

28.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

29.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

30.

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

Cosby, Bill

31.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

32.

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

Alger, William R.

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

38.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

43.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

44.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

45.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

46.

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