Advice Quotes

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

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

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

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others.
Bible

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
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. Churchill, Winston

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

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
John Churton Collins

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