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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Alger, William R.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Ball, Ivern

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Bible

10.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

11.

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

12.

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

Lope de Vega

13.

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

Gore Vidal

14.

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

15.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Solon

19.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Oscar Wilde

21.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

22.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

23.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

24.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

English Proverb

29.

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

Billings, Josh

30.

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

31.

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

Hanson, Lord

32.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

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

34.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

35.

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

Collins, John Churton

36.

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

Herbert, Jack

37.

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

38.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

39.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

40.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

43.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Collins, John Churton

47.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

49.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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