Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

2.

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

Chapman, George

3.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

5.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

6.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

7.

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

8.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

9.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Melbourne, Lord

10.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Lope de Vega

14.

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

15.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

16.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

19.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

20.

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

Randy Pausch

21.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

22.

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

Herbert, Jack

23.

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

Solon

24.

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

25.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Aeschylus

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

34.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

35.

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

Gore Vidal

36.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

43.

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

Ball, Ivern

44.

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

Alger, William R.

45.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

46.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

47.

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

48.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

49.

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

English Proverb

50.

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

Collins, John Churton