Motivational Quotes

Advice

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Gore Vidal

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

Erica Jong

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

Chapman, George

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Herbert, Jack

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

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

Talmud, The

15.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

16.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

18.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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

21.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

22.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

23.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

24.

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

25.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

26.

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

Sidney J. Harris

27.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish 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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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

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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

31.

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

32.

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

English Proverb

33.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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.