Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Sidney J. Harris

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Anne Tyler

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

Collins, John Churton

11.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

15.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

Macaulay, J. C.

18.

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

Alger, William R.

20.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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 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

28.

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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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

33.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gore Vidal

40.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

41.

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

Chapman, George

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

Billings, Josh

43.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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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

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

Aeschylus

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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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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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus