Motivational Quotes

Advice

To advise is not to compel.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

3.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

4.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

5.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

6.

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

Sidney J. Harris

7.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

9.

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

Alger, William R.

10.

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

11.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

13.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

14.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Cosby, Bill

16.

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

Chapman, George

17.

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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Randy Pausch

20.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

21.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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.

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

Collins, John Churton

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Knegge

27.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

28.

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

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

31.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

32.

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

Lope de Vega

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Anne Tyler

37.

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

Solon

38.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

41.

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

Oscar Wilde

42.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

44.

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.