Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Lope de Vega

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Randy Pausch

11.

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

Collins, John Churton

12.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

13.

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

Knegge

14.

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

15.

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

English Proverb

16.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

18.

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

Ball, Ivern

19.

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

Solon

20.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler

21.

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

Chapman, George

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

24.

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

Herbert, Jack

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

Talmud, The

27.

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

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

31.

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

32.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

33.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

34.

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

35.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

36.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

39.

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

Bible

40.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

41.

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

42.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

43.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

44.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

49.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

50.

To advise is easier than to help.