Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Erica Jong

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]

Bible

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Anne Tyler

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Aeschylus

10.

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

Knegge

11.

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

Herbert, Jack

12.

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

English Proverb

13.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

16.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

19.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

20.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

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

22.

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

Alger, William R.

23.

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

Cosby, Bill

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.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

26.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

27.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

28.

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving she may sound to him.

Gray, John

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Sidney J. Harris

31.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

32.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

33.

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

34.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

35.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

36.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

37.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

Chapman, George

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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

40.

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

Talmud, The

41.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

42.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

43.

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