Motivational Quotes

Advice

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

2.

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

Gore Vidal

3.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

4.

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

Solon

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

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

8.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

9.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

10.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

11.

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

12.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

15.

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

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Collins, John Churton

18.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Herbert, Jack

19.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

20.

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

Sidney J. Harris

21.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

22.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

23.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

26.

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

27.

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

28.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

31.

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

Randy Pausch

32.

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

33.

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

Collins, John Churton

34.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

35.

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

Lope de Vega

36.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

Anne Tyler

38.

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

Aeschylus

39.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Zaslow, Jeff

40.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Erica Jong

45.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

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

Hanson, Lord

49.

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

50.

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

Ball, Ivern