Motivational Quotes

Advice

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Advice

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Chapman, George

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

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

13.

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

Alger, William R.

14.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Collins, John Churton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Bible

19.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Erica Jong

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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

25.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Cosby, Bill

27.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Collins, John Churton

31.

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

Knegge

32.

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

Aeschylus

33.

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

34.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

35.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

37.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

38.

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

Lope de Vega

39.

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

Gore Vidal

40.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

44.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

45.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

46.

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

Hanson, Lord

47.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

48.

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

49.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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