Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

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

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

12.

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

13.

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

Randy Pausch

14.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Lope de Vega

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

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

Cosby, Bill

20.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

22.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

English Proverb

26.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

27.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

Herbert, Jack

29.

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

Hanson, Lord

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Collins, John Churton

32.

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

Knegge

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Bacon, Francis

37.

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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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

39.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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