Quotes about advice

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

— Aeschylus

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

— Aesop

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

— Tony Alesandra

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

— William R. Alger

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.

— Nelson Algren

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

— Ghose Aurobindo

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.

— Francis Bacon

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.

— Francis Bacon

The worst men often give the best advice.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Ivern Ball

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Bible

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

— Bible

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

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.

— Phillips Brooks

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— George Chapman

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

— Lord Chesterfield

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.

— Lord Chesterfield

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— John Churton Collins

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

— John Churton Collins

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

— Bill Cosby

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

— Edward Dahlberg

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.

— Gene Fowler

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

— Benjamin Franklin

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

— Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt, don't.

— Saul W. Gellerman

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

— Kahlil Gibran

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

— Marquis de la Grange

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.

— John Gray

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.

— John Gray

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

— Lord Hanson

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

— Sir Arthur Helps

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

— Jack Herbert

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whatever advice you give, be short.

— Horace

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

— Horace

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

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

— Ben Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Erica Jong

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

— Karl Von Knebel

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

— Knegge

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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]

— David Letterman

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

— Lope de Vega

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

— J. C. Macaulay

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

— Thomas L. Masson

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.

— Lord Melbourne

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

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Good advice is beyond all price.

— Proverb

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

— Proverb

Never give advice in a crowd.

— Arabian Proverb

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

— Chinese Proverb

To advise is not to compel.

— German Proverb

To advise is easier than to help.

— German Proverb

Never give advice unless asked.

— German Proverb

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.

— Spanish Proverb

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

— David Seabury

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

— Seneca

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

— William Shakespeare

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.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

— John Steinbeck

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.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

— Publilius Syrus

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— The Talmud

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

— Hunter S. Thompson

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.

— Henry David Thoreau

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

— Henry David Thoreau

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

— Source Unknown

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

— Source Unknown

A word to the wise is infuriating.

— Source Unknown

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

— Source Unknown

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

— Source Unknown

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Give help rather than advice.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Jeff Zaslow

Don't believe or stop for NO one, that tells you ''your not going to make it'! Its your marathon they don't know where your going.

— BPBEE

If lying is your fashion its a bad look

— Authentic James

Say Something, Do Something, Make nothing become something. Be Something.

— Jvongard

Giving advice to a fool is like giving medicine to a dead man

— Source Unknown