Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

2.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

3.

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

Gore Vidal

4.

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

5.

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

6.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

7.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

9.

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

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

12.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

13.

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

14.

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

Chapman, George

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

17.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

18.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

21.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

22.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

24.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Erica Jong

30.

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

Alger, William R.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Herbert, Jack

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

37.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

38.

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

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

Solon

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

43.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

46.

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

47.

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

Wilde, Oscar

48.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

49.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

50.

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