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

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

12.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

13.

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

Collins, John Churton

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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

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

Erica Jong

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

20.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Oscar Wilde

22.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

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

Alger, William R.

26.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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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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

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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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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

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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

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

Knebel, Karl Von

34.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

35.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

37.

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

Ball, Ivern

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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