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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Erica Jong

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

13.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

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

English Proverb

18.

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

Anne Tyler

19.

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

Sidney J. Harris

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

24.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

27.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

28.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Aeschylus

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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

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

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

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

40.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Solon

44.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Oscar Wilde

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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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

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

Bible

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler