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.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

2.

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

3.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

5.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

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

Ball, Ivern

7.

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

Oscar Wilde

8.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

9.

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

Solon

10.

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

11.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Erica Jong

15.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

20.

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

Alger, William R.

21.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

22.

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

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

25.

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

Collins, John Churton

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Herbert, Jack

31.

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

Anne Tyler

32.

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

33.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Brendan Francis

34.

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

Collins, John Churton

35.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

40.

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

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.