Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Advice

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Ball, Ivern

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

20.

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

Lope de Vega

21.

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

Gore Vidal

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Herbert, Jack

24.

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

Cosby, Bill

25.

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

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Collins, John Churton

28.

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

Solon

29.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

30.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

31.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Randy Pausch

35.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

36.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

37.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

38.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

40.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

43.

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

44.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

45.

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

46.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

47.

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

Alger, William R.

48.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

49.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice