Motivational Quotes

Advice

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Anne Tyler

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

Shakespeare, William

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

11.

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

Solon

12.

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

English Proverb

13.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

14.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

15.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith

16.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

17.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

18.

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

19.

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

Herbert, Jack

20.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

23.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

28.

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

Collins, John Churton

29.

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

30.

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

Gore Vidal

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

Aeschylus

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

38.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

40.

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

Chapman, George

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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

42.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

43.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

44.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

45.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.