Motivational Quotes

Advice

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

2.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

13.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

14.

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

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Aeschylus

17.

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

Gore Vidal

18.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

22.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

23.

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

Cosby, Bill

24.

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

25.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

26.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

27.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

29.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

30.

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

Ball, Ivern

31.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Proverb

32.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Alger, William R.

33.

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

Chapman, George

34.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

35.

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

Collins, John Churton

36.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

40.

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

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Collins, John Churton

44.

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

Sidney J. Harris

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Talmud, The

48.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

50.

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