Motivational Quotes

Advice

Good advice is beyond all price.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Knegge

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

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Randy Pausch

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Anne Tyler

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

Herbert, Jack

10.

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

Hanson, Lord

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

13.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

16.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

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

Solon

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Erica Jong

20.

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

21.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

22.

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

23.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

24.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

26.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

30.

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

Collins, John Churton

31.

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

32.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

34.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

35.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

36.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

37.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

38.

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

Lope de Vega

39.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Talmud, The

41.

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

42.

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

Ball, Ivern

43.

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

44.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

45.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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