Motivational Quotes

Advice

Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]

- Letterman, David

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

2.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

3.

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

Solon

4.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

5.

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

Johnson, Samuel

6.

Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]

Letterman, David

7.

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

Collins, John Churton

8.

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

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Sidney J. Harris

12.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

13.

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

Erica Jong

14.

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

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

English Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Knegge

23.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

24.

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

25.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Aurobindo, Ghose

26.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

29.

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

30.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

31.

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

32.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

33.

Always be nice to bankers.Always be nice to pension fund managers.Always be nice to the media.In that order.

Hanson, Lord

34.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

35.

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.