Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

3.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Oscar Wilde

7.

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

Gore Vidal

8.

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

Talmud, The

9.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

10.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

English Proverb

15.

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

Sidney J. Harris

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

22.

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

Chapman, George

23.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

24.

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

Aeschylus

25.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

28.

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

Anne Tyler

29.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Randy Pausch

34.

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ball, Ivern

35.

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

Herbert, Jack

36.

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

Cosby, Bill

37.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

38.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

Erica Jong

40.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

46.

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

47.

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