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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

4.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

5.

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

6.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

10.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

11.

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

Chapman, George

12.

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

13.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

English Proverb

16.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

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

Anne Tyler

19.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

20.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

21.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Hanson, Lord

23.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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.

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

26.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Knebel, Karl Von

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

29.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

30.

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

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Erica Jong

33.

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

Herbert, Jack

34.

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

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Collins, John Churton

37.

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

38.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

39.

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

Collins, John Churton

40.

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

Lope de Vega

41.

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

Bible

42.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

Aeschylus

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

46.

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

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

49.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.