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

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Macaulay, J. C.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Solon

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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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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Herbert, Jack

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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

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

Erica Jong

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

Lope de Vega

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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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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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Knegge

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Randy Pausch

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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

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aeschylus

41.

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

Hanson, Lord

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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 give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay