Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Chapman, George

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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

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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

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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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

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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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Hanson, Lord

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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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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Sidney J. Harris

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

Anne Tyler

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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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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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aeschylus

40.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon

42.

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

Erica Jong

43.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

English Proverb

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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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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

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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Billings, Josh

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

Herbert, Jack

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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