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

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Alger, William R.

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Bible

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

10.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

11.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

12.

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

Cosby, Bill

13.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

14.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

18.

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

Anne Tyler

19.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

21.

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

Erica Jong

22.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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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

24.

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

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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

26.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

27.

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

28.

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

29.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

Gore Vidal

32.

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

Lope de Vega

33.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

34.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Chapman, George

38.

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

Collins, John Churton

39.

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

Sidney J. Harris

40.

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

41.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

Solon

45.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ball, Ivern

47.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

50.

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