Motivational Quotes

Advice

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Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

3.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

4.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

5.

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

6.

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

Erica Jong

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

9.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

10.

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

Knegge

11.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

16.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

17.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Algren, Nelson

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

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

Collins, John Churton

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

Anne Tyler

35.

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

36.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

37.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

39.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

40.

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

41.

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

Aeschylus

42.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

43.

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

Sidney J. Harris

44.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

45.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De