Motivational Quotes

Advice

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Knegge

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

Anne Tyler

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Proverb, Chinese

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Billings, Josh

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

10.

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lope de Vega

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

Sidney J. Harris

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Billings, Josh

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

Erica Jong

19.

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

20.

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

English Proverb

21.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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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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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

28.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

34.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

40.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

41.

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

Aeschylus

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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

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