Motivational Quotes

Advice

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

Best Quotes about Advice

1.

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

2.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

3.

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

Oscar Wilde

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Proverb

6.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

7.

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

Talmud, The

8.

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

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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

Ball, Ivern

10.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

14.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

15.

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

Anne Tyler

16.

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

17.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

18.

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

19.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Erica Jong

27.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

28.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

30.

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

31.

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

Gordon R. Dickson

32.

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

Herbert, Jack

33.

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

Collins, John Churton

34.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Brendan Francis

35.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

Helps, Sir Arthur

40.

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

Knebel, Karl Von

41.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

42.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

43.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

44.

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

Solon

45.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

46.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Billings, Josh

50.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace