Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Advice

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Proverb, Chinese

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

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

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

Lope de Vega

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

10.

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

Hanson, Lord

11.

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

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

Bible

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

14.

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

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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Gore Vidal

18.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Collins, John Churton

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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

21.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

22.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

23.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

26.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

28.

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

Erica Jong

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Billings, Josh

33.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

34.

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

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Randy Pausch

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Aeschylus

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Collins, John Churton

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

English Proverb

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

Knegge

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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]