Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

2.

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

Lope de Vega

3.

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

Anne Tyler

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

7.

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

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

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

Herbert, Jack

10.

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

11.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

14.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

16.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

17.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Oscar Wilde

20.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

22.

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

English Proverb

23.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

24.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

25.

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

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Sidney J. Harris

29.

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

30.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

31.

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

Ball, Ivern

32.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

33.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

34.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

35.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

36.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

37.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

38.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

40.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

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

Collins, John Churton

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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 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

46.

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

Gore Vidal

47.

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

48.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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

Wilde, Oscar