Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Knebel, Karl Von

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Knegge

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb, German

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

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

10.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

11.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

12.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

13.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

14.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

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

16.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

22.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

23.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Dahlberg, Edward

24.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

25.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

26.

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

27.

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

Gore Vidal

28.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

29.

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

Talmud, The

30.

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

Collins, John Churton

31.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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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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

36.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

37.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.