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 take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

2.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

3.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

4.

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

Billings, Josh

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

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

Wilde, Oscar

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

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

Anne Tyler

10.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

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

Lope de Vega

13.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Collins, John Churton

15.

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

Gore Vidal

16.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

17.

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

18.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

19.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Solon

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

Hanson, Lord

26.

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

Knegge

27.

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

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

33.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

34.

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

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Ball, Ivern

39.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

40.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

43.

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

44.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

Aeschylus

49.

Never give advice in a crowd.