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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Bible

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

Gordon R. Dickson

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Alger, William R.

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

Solon

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

Gore Vidal

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Masson, Thomas L.

10.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

11.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

12.

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

Erica Jong

13.

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

14.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

16.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

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

Knegge

25.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

26.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

27.

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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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

29.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

30.

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

31.

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

Aeschylus

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herbert, Jack

36.

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ball, Ivern

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

Collins, John Churton

40.

Never give advice unless asked.

German 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

42.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

43.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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