Motivational Quotes

Advice

To advise is not to compel.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Advice

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Erica Jong

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

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Collins, John Churton

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gore Vidal

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

10.

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

11.

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

Solon

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.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

15.

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

16.

Always be nice to bankers.Always be nice to pension fund managers.Always be nice to the media.In that order.

Hanson, Lord

17.

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

Randy Pausch

18.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

Gray, John

21.

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

Chapman, George

22.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

24.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

25.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

26.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

28.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Billings, Josh

29.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

35.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Bible

38.

Whatever advice you give, be short.