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

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

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

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Fowler, Gene

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Erica Jong

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

Billings, Josh

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope de Vega

10.

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

English Proverb

11.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

14.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Collins, John Churton

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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Algren, Nelson

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

Knegge

18.

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

Talmud, The

19.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

21.

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

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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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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

24.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Macaulay, J. C.

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Gore Vidal

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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

33.

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

Randy Pausch

34.

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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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

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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 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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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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