Motivational Quotes

Advice

Give help rather than advice.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

2.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

3.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

4.

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

Cosby, Bill

5.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Sidney J. Harris

9.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ball, Ivern

13.

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

14.

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

Knegge

15.

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

16.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

17.

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

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.

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

Collins, John Churton

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Anne Tyler

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Lope de Vega

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Hanson, Lord

30.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

31.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

33.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

34.

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

Erica Jong

35.

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

36.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

37.

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

Gore Vidal

38.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

39.

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.