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

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

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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Anne Tyler

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Randy Pausch

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

English Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

Alger, William R.

14.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

15.

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

Lope de Vega

16.

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

17.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

23.

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

Solon

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Herbert, Jack

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

31.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

37.

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

Aeschylus

38.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

39.

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

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

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

Chapman, George

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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

44.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

45.

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

Erica Jong

46.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Cosby, Bill