Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Hanson, Lord

Best Quotes about Advice

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Talmud, The

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

English Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Alger, William R.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Aeschylus

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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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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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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

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Chapman, George

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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hanson, Lord

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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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

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Melbourne, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Collins, John Churton