Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Sidney J. Harris

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

5.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

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

Aeschylus

8.

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

9.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Anne Tyler

11.

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

English Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Collins, John Churton

16.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

17.

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

Talmud, The

18.

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

Ball, Ivern

19.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

22.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

23.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

27.

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

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Alger, William R.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

34.

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

Randy Pausch

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.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

37.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

38.

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

39.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

Collins, John Churton

41.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

42.

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]

Bible

43.

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

Oscar Wilde

44.

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

45.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

46.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

47.

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

Sidney J. Harris

48.

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