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

1.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

2.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

3.

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

Gore Vidal

4.

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

Talmud, The

5.

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

6.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

7.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

8.

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

9.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

11.

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

12.

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

Ball, Ivern

13.

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

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Chapman, George

16.

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

17.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

18.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

19.

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

20.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Knegge

21.

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

22.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

23.

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

24.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

25.

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

Lope de Vega

26.

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

27.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

28.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

30.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

32.

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

33.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

34.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

35.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

36.

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