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 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

2.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

3.

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

4.

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

Hanson, Lord

5.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

8.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

9.

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

Cosby, Bill

10.

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

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

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

13.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

15.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

16.

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

17.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Randy Pausch

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Sidney J. Harris

21.

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

English Proverb

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

25.

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

26.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

39.

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Alger, William R.

42.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

43.

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

44.

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

Erica Jong

45.

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

Knegge

46.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

47.

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

48.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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

Collins, John Churton

50.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb