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.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

2.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

3.

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

Lope de Vega

4.

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

5.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

6.

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

Cosby, Bill

7.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

9.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

10.

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

Alger, William R.

11.

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

English Proverb

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

14.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

15.

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

Herbert, Jack

16.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

17.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

18.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

19.

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

20.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

22.

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

Solon

23.

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

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

28.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Melbourne, Lord

29.

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

Chapman, George

30.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

31.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Collins, John Churton

33.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

34.

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

Hanson, Lord

35.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

36.

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

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

38.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Billings, Josh

39.

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

40.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

41.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

42.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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

Collins, John Churton

45.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

Anne Tyler

48.

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

49.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

50.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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