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

1.

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

Collins, John Churton

2.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

3.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

4.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

5.

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

Knegge

6.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

10.

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

Cosby, Bill

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Gore Vidal

16.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

17.

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

18.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

22.

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

23.

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

Aeschylus

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Zaslow, Jeff

27.

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

Solon

28.

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

Hanson, Lord

29.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Billings, Josh

30.

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.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

34.

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

Herbert, Jack

35.

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

Anne Tyler

36.

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