Motivational Quotes

Advice

To advise is not to compel.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Advice

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Collins, John Churton

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Shakespeare, William

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

10.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

11.

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

12.

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

Cosby, Bill

13.

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

Alger, William R.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

17.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

18.

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

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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

20.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Fowler, Gene

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Oscar Wilde

24.

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

English Proverb

25.

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

Chapman, George

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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

27.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

28.

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

Knegge

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

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

31.

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

Gore Vidal

32.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Collins, John Churton

35.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Aeschylus

38.

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

39.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

40.

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