Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Ball, Ivern

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

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

Knegge

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

8.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

9.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

10.

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

Randy Pausch

11.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

13.

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

Erica Jong

14.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

15.

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

Collins, John Churton

16.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

17.

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

Chapman, George

18.

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

19.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

Talmud, The

22.

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

Hanson, Lord

23.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

24.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

26.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

27.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

28.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

29.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

30.

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

Ball, Ivern

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

34.

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

35.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

Alger, William R.

39.

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

Gore Vidal

40.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

41.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

45.

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

Sidney J. Harris

46.

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