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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Chapman, George

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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

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

Anne Tyler

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

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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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

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

Alger, William R.

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Solon

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

Talmud, The

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

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To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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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 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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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

Herbert, Jack

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Billings, Josh

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