Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Randy Pausch

Best Quotes about Advice

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Herbert, Jack

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Lope de Vega

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Anne Tyler

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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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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

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

Gore Vidal

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

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

Collins, John Churton

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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

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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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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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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

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

Chapman, George

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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 give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Randy Pausch

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter