Motivational Quotes

Advice

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Advice

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

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Aeschylus

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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

Knebel, Karl Von

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

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

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

Ball, Ivern

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

Masson, Thomas L.

10.

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

11.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Alger, William R.

13.

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

Herbert, Jack

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Collins, John Churton

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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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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

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

Bible

21.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Macaulay, J. C.

26.

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

27.

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

Solon

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chapman, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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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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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

39.

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

Collins, John Churton

40.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

41.

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

Aurobindo, Ghose

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice