Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Ball, Ivern

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

10.

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

11.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gore Vidal

14.

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

Solon

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

16.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

17.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Knebel, Karl Von

20.

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

Chapman, George

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

Cosby, Bill

22.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aeschylus

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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Collins, John Churton

27.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Aurobindo, Ghose

28.

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

Talmud, The

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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

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Alger, William R.

33.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Bible

40.

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

Sidney J. Harris

41.

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

Lope de Vega

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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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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.