Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

6.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

7.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

8.

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

9.

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

Knegge

10.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

14.

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

Macaulay, J. C.

15.

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

Lope de Vega

16.

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

Bible

17.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

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

Alger, William R.

22.

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

Gore Vidal

23.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

24.

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

Chapman, George

25.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Herbert, Jack

29.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

31.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

32.

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

33.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

34.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Solon

36.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

40.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

41.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

46.

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

47.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

49.

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

Collins, John Churton

50.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.