Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Randy Pausch

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

Gore Vidal

14.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

16.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

17.

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

Herbert, Jack

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Knegge

21.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

25.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sidney J. Harris

27.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

28.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Collins, John Churton

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Solon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cosby, Bill

43.

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

Collins, John Churton

45.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

46.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Anne Tyler

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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