Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Advice

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Billings, Josh

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

11.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

12.

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Collins, John Churton

15.

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

16.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

19.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

21.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

22.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

23.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

26.

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

Cosby, Bill

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Anne Tyler

31.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

32.

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

Hanson, Lord

33.

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

34.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

35.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

36.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Chapman, George

38.

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

Randy Pausch

39.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

40.

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

Lope de Vega

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

44.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

45.

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

Solon

46.

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

Herbert, Jack

47.

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

48.

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

Billings, Josh

49.

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

50.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De