Motivational Quotes

Advice

To advise is not to compel.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Collins, John Churton

2.

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

Oscar Wilde

3.

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

4.

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ball, Ivern

5.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

6.

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

Erica Jong

7.

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

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

10.

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

11.

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

Knegge

12.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

14.

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

15.

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

Collins, John Churton

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Gore Vidal

18.

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

19.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

20.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

21.

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

22.

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

Talmud, The

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

25.

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

Aeschylus

26.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

35.

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

Solon

36.

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

Chapman, George

37.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

38.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

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

Anne Tyler

41.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

42.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

44.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

45.

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

46.

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

Hanson, Lord

47.

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

Wilde, Oscar

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Macaulay, J. C.