Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- English Proverb

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

5.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

6.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

7.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

8.

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

9.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

10.

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

Alger, William R.

11.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

12.

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

Cosby, Bill

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Hanson, Lord

15.

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

Randy Pausch

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Anne Tyler

18.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Erica Jong

20.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

21.

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

22.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

24.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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

28.

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

29.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

32.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Collins, John Churton

36.

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

Knegge

37.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

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

Lope de Vega

41.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

46.

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

47.

Never give advice unless asked.