Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Aeschylus

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

Gore Vidal

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Alger, William R.

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

English Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Lope de Vega

13.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

14.

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

15.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

16.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

17.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

19.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Collins, John Churton

20.

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ball, Ivern

21.

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

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

23.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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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

25.

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

Erica Jong

26.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

27.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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

Sidney J. Harris

36.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

37.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

38.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

42.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

43.

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

44.

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

Solon

45.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German