Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Ball, Ivern

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herbert, Jack

10.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Collins, John Churton

14.

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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17.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

18.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

19.

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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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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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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

27.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

28.

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

Aeschylus

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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 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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

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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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Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Randy Pausch

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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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

42.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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

44.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Billings, Josh

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

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