Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

3.

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

4.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

5.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

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

8.

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

Knegge

9.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

10.

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

11.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Chapman, George

21.

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

22.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Alger, William R.

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Herbert, Jack

30.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

33.

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

Talmud, The

34.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

35.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

36.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

English Proverb

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

43.

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

Gore Vidal

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

46.

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

Sidney J. Harris

47.

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

Ball, Ivern

48.

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

49.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

50.

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