Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

2.

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

3.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

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

Talmud, The

5.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

12.

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

Anne Tyler

13.

Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

Ellen DeGeneres

14.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

15.

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

Erica Jong

16.

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

Chapman, George

17.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

18.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

19.

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

20.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

21.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

22.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

23.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

24.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

27.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Knegge

29.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

30.

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

English Proverb

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

34.

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

35.

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]

Bible

36.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

37.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

38.

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