Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Advice

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Macaulay, J. C.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Collins, John Churton

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

10.

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

11.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

12.

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

Collins, John Churton

13.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

14.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

15.

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

Ball, Ivern

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.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

18.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Herbert, Jack

21.

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

Solon

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

24.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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

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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

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Erica Jong

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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