Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never give advice in a crowd.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

2.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Solon

6.

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

7.

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

Anne Tyler

8.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

Lope de Vega

13.

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

Bible

14.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

16.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

English Proverb

20.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

24.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

25.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

26.

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

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

Knegge

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Chapman, George

31.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

32.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

35.

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

Gore Vidal

36.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

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

38.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

41.

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