Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Lope de Vega

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

Erica Jong

3.

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

4.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

5.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

6.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

7.

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

8.

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

Bible

9.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

13.

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

Ball, Ivern

14.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

Knegge

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

20.

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

Hanson, Lord

21.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

22.

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

Solon

23.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

24.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

27.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

36.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

37.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

38.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Lope de Vega

45.

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

Collins, John Churton

46.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

Randy Pausch

47.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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