Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lope de Vega

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

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Anne Tyler

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Aeschylus

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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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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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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

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

Sidney J. Harris

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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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

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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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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

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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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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

English Proverb

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

Ball, Ivern

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Chapman, George

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Erica Jong

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Solon

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Churchill, Winston

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