Motivational Quotes

Advice

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Aeschylus

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

11.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Chapman, George

13.

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

Solon

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

18.

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

Collins, John Churton

19.

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

Lope de Vega

20.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

21.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

24.

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

Sidney J. Harris

25.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

26.

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

Ball, Ivern

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

30.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Alger, William R.

32.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

33.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

34.

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

35.

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

Anne Tyler

36.

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

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Herbert, Jack

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.