Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Advice

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Alger, William R.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

10.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

11.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Randy Pausch

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

16.

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

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.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

19.

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

Collins, John Churton

20.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

22.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Chapman, George

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

26.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

27.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

28.

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

Aeschylus

29.

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

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

32.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Anne Tyler

35.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

36.

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

Herbert, Jack

37.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

38.

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

Sidney J. Harris

39.

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

40.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

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

Gore Vidal

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

Talmud, The

44.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

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

48.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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

Hanson, Lord

50.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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