Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Helps, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Advice

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

English Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Hanson, Lord

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

12.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

13.

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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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Bible

20.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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

Erica Jong

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Wilde, Oscar

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Solon

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

Alger, William R.

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

Anne Tyler

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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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Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bierce, Ambrose