Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Sidney J. Harris

Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Solon

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

Cosby, Bill

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Macaulay, J. C.

10.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

12.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

13.

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

Anne Tyler

14.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

15.

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

16.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

17.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

18.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

24.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

25.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

26.

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

Erica Jong

27.

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

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

32.

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

Chapman, George

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

40.

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

Talmud, The

41.

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

Alger, William R.

42.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

44.

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

Hanson, Lord

45.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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.