Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

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

Cosby, Bill

3.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

4.

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

5.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

6.

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

Collins, John Churton

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

9.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

10.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

11.

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

12.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

13.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Anne Tyler

16.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

21.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

22.

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

Chapman, George

23.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

24.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Herbert, Jack

26.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

27.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

29.

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

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Solon

37.

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

Aeschylus

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

Collins, John Churton

47.

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

48.

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

49.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

50.

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