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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Bible

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Gore Vidal

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

Talmud, The

10.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

11.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

12.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

13.

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

14.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

15.

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

Aeschylus

16.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Herbert, Jack

19.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

20.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

21.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

Randy Pausch

22.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

23.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

38.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

39.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

40.

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

41.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

42.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Collins, John Churton

48.

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

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

The worst men often give the best advice.