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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Solon

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

Chapman, George

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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

Collins, John Churton

11.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

12.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

15.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Gore Vidal

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

Cosby, Bill

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

English Proverb

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

25.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

26.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

27.

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

Hanson, Lord

28.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

29.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Anne Tyler

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

39.

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

Lope de Vega

40.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

41.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

42.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

43.

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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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

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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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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

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