Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Macaulay, J. C.

Best Quotes about Advice

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Gore Vidal

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

English Proverb

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Zaslow, Jeff

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

10.

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

11.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

Sidney J. Harris

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

19.

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

20.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

21.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Lope de Vega

23.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

24.

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

25.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

28.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

29.

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

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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

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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Cosby, Bill

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

Aeschylus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ball, Ivern

35.

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

Chapman, George

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

Alger, William R.

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

Anne Tyler

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Billings, Josh

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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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

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

Hanson, Lord

46.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

47.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

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

Randy Pausch