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

1.

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

Sidney J. Harris

2.

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

3.

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

4.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

7.

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

Aeschylus

8.

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

9.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

10.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

13.

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

Collins, John Churton

14.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

15.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

16.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Brooks, Phillips

19.

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

English Proverb

20.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

22.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

23.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

24.

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

25.

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

Collins, John Churton

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Bible

28.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

34.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

35.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

37.

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

Billings, Josh

38.

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

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.

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

41.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

42.

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

43.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

44.

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

Solon

45.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

46.

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