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

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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Erica Jong

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

10.

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

Knegge

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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

12.

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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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Knebel, Karl 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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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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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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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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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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

21.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

22.

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Solon

24.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

25.

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

English Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

28.

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

Anne Tyler

29.

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

Hanson, Lord

30.

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

Lope de Vega

31.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Cosby, Bill

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Alger, William R.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

43.

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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Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Ball, Ivern

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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 good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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To advise is not to compel.