Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

2.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

3.

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

Bible

4.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

5.

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

Gore Vidal

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

Alger, William R.

8.

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

Erica Jong

9.

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

10.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

11.

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.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Solon

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

23.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

24.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

27.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

28.

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

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

31.

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

English Proverb

32.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

34.

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

Talmud, The

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Knegge

38.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

39.

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

40.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

42.

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

Collins, John Churton

43.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

44.

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

Lope de Vega

45.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

46.

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

47.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

49.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

50.

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