Motivational Quotes

Advice

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Anne Tyler

2.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

English Proverb

4.

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

5.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

6.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

7.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Collins, John Churton

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

12.

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

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

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

Knegge

15.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

16.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

17.

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

Talmud, The

18.

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

19.

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

Lope de Vega

20.

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

21.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

23.

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

24.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

25.

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

26.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

27.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

35.

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

36.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

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

Randy Pausch

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

40.

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

Hanson, Lord

41.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Aurobindo, Ghose

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

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.

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

Chapman, George

47.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

49.

Ask advice only of your equals.