Motivational Quotes

Advice

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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Best Quotes about Advice

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Knegge

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

Bible

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

10.

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

Gore Vidal

11.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

12.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

13.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

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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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Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

19.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

20.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

21.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

22.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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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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

27.

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

Collins, John Churton

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

30.

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

Hanson, Lord

31.

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

32.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

33.

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

Anne Tyler

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Erica Jong

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

38.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

41.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Sidney J. Harris

43.

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

Talmud, The

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

48.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

49.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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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