Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Billings, Josh

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Hanson, Lord

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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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

18.

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

Lope de Vega

19.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Collins, John Churton

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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

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

24.

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

25.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ask advice only of your equals.