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

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

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

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

10.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Collins, John Churton

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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

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gore Vidal

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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

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Ball, Ivern

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Erica Jong

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

Solon

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

Aeschylus

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

Billings, Josh

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Talmud, The

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

49.

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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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