Motivational Quotes

Advice

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Chapman, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

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

Erica Jong

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

Knebel, Karl Von

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

10.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

11.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

12.

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Ball, Ivern

14.

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

English Proverb

15.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

16.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

20.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

23.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

24.

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

25.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

26.

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

27.

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

Gore Vidal

28.

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

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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

30.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Knegge

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cosby, Bill

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Randy Pausch

37.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

39.

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

Herbert, Jack

40.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

41.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

42.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

47.

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

Hanson, Lord

48.

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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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

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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