Motivational Quotes

Advice

Give help rather than advice.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

3.

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

Ball, Ivern

4.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

5.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Erica Jong

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

English Proverb

12.

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

Aeschylus

13.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

14.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

15.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

16.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Collins, John Churton

21.

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

22.

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

Lope de Vega

23.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

30.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

31.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

32.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

33.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

37.

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

Oscar Wilde

38.

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

Knegge

39.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

40.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

41.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

42.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

45.

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

Collins, John Churton

46.

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

Sidney J. Harris

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Hanson, Lord