Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Advice

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

English Proverb

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

Randy Pausch

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

Billings, Josh

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chapman, George

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

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

Collins, John Churton

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

10.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

11.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

12.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

19.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

20.

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

21.

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

Gore Vidal

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Bible

26.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

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

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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

30.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

31.

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

Alger, William R.

32.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Lope de Vega

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

41.

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

Cosby, Bill

42.

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

Knegge

43.

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

44.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

45.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

46.

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

Collins, John Churton

47.

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

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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

49.

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

50.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb