Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

2.

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

Hanson, Lord

3.

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

Lope de Vega

4.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

5.

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

Wilde, Oscar

6.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

7.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

8.

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

Erica Jong

9.

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

10.

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

Talmud, The

11.

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

12.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

13.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Chapman, George

19.

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

Knegge

20.

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

Ball, Ivern

21.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

22.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

23.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

Randy Pausch

24.

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

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

28.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Alger, William R.

29.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

30.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

32.

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

Collins, John Churton

33.

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

34.

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

Gore Vidal

35.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.