Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

Lope de Vega

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

10.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Ball, Ivern

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Knegge

17.

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

18.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Bible

20.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

21.

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

Collins, John Churton

22.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

23.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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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

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

Aeschylus

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Hanson, Lord

28.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Bible

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gore Vidal

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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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

42.

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

Chapman, George

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

44.

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

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German