Motivational Quotes

Advice

Never give advice in a crowd.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Advice

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Herbert, Jack

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

14.

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

Anne Tyler

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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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Bible

18.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

20.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

23.

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

Cosby, Bill

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Collins, John Churton

30.

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

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

34.

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

Aeschylus

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

Erica Jong

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

Gordon R. Dickson

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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

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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

39.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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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

41.

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

42.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

43.

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

English Proverb

44.

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

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

Solon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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