Motivational Quotes

Advice

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

Sidney J. Harris

4.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

5.

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

6.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

7.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

Randy Pausch

8.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

9.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

10.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

11.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

13.

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

14.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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.

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

Herbert, Jack

18.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

19.

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

20.

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

Ball, Ivern

21.

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

22.

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

Gore Vidal

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

32.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

Chapman, George

39.

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

Collins, John Churton

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

42.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Collins, John Churton

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.