Motivational Quotes

Advice

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

4.

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

Aeschylus

5.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

6.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

8.

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

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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

Ball, Ivern

10.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

11.

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

Hanson, Lord

12.

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

13.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

14.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

15.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

19.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

20.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

21.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

22.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Cosby, Bill

25.

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

26.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

29.

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

Collins, John Churton

30.

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

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

33.

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

Lope de Vega

34.

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

Randy Pausch

35.

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

Billings, Josh

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

Oscar Wilde

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

41.

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

Anne Tyler

42.

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

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

45.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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