Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gore Vidal

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Bible

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Randy Pausch

13.

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

Sidney J. Harris

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.

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

Collins, John Churton

16.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

17.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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

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.

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

Lope de Vega

23.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

25.

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

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Hanson, Lord

28.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

34.

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

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

39.

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

40.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

41.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

42.

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

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

Macaulay, J. C.

44.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

45.

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

Herbert, Jack

46.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

47.

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

Chapman, George

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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