Top 100 Don't Give Advice Quotes
#1. People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves
Mr. T
#3. Don't give advice unless you're asked.
Amy Alcott
#4. If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." Chinese proverb
Nana Awere Damoah
#5. A little of everything, that's what a successful business is all about, Brian. Diversity, pleasure, amazement, fulfillment ... what a successful life is all about, for that matter ... I don't give advice, but if I did, you could do worse than to remember that ... now let me see ... somewhere
Stephen King
#6. I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.
Kevin Dillon
#7. There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised
Umar
#8. I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.
Dionne Warwick
#9. My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
Rob Zombie
#10. Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.
Beverley Knight
#11. I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.
Britney Spears
#12. The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.
Sally Ride
#13. Jonah squealed, jumping up and down and shaking his pom-poms. His skirt swished around his scrawny yellow knees.
"Jonah, can I give you a piece of sisterly advice?"
"Yeah."
"If you ever want to lose your virginity, don't do that again. Ever.
Carrie Harris
#14. Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.
Emily Blunt
#15. It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging.
Nick Swardson
#16. Take some more advice from Dr. Micah. Don't give women too much time to think. It never ends up good for either of you.
Melissa Schroeder
#17. Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.
Drake Bell
#18. If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.
Alex Agase
#19. Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
Bethany Cosentino
#20. The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.
Rian Johnson
#21. Your director is your main support - actors don't generally give each other advice on set, not in my experience.
Paul Dano
#22. I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
Fiona Apple
#23. You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don't give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don't lose them.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#24. What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.
Rick Pitino
#25. Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise - whether you're 18 or 88. But the intensity is what's lacking in most people's workouts. And there are doctors who'll give you the advice, "Well, don't push it."
Jack LaLanne
#26. Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
Randy Pausch
#28. Take the advice I sometimes have to give to myself: Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off.
Karen Ehman
#29. I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon
#30. Don't always refuse to go shopping with your wife. Of course it's a nuisance, but sometimes she honestly wants your advice, and you ought to be pleased to give it.
Blanche Ebbutt
#31. My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#32. We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#33. If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.
Mooji
#34. I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
Judi Dench
#35. Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice.
Saul Bellow
#36. If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
Markus Zusak
#37. It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice ... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.
Ben Heppner
#38. The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!
Ray Dalio
#39. For when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Louisa May Alcott
#40. If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script ... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
Wallace Shawn
#41. Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.
George Carlin
#42. The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.
Russell Baker
#43. My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of ant use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
#44. I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.
Robert Doisneau
#45. The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Edwina Currie
#47. Why do you give me good advice?"
asked Laurent.
Isn't that why you brought me with
you? Instead of speaking those words
aloud, Damen said, "Why don't you take
any of it?
C.S. Pacat
#48. I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
Jack Nicholson
#49. I don't think I have the right to give someone advice when I don't know them.
Leona Lewis
#50. I never weigh myself. That's the best advice I can give - never step on a scale. You know if you're being healthy, if you're exercising. You don't need to be undermined by some crazy number.
Elaine Irwin
#51. Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.
Cathie Pelletier
#52. I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.
Robert Downey Jr.
#53. I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they don't look good in pictures, even though they look great?
Kevin Jonas
#54. No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.
Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:
Don't kick against the pricks,
Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game
And died, there's nothing in it.
Ezra Pound
#55. When you lose someone, they take a bigger place in your heart, not a smaller one. Every day it grows, because you don't stop loving them. You wish you could talk to them. You need their advice. But life doesn't always give us what we need, and it's difficult.
Adriana Trigiani
#56. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.
Christopher Paolini
#57. I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.
Kevyn Aucoin
#58. I've been through a lot of different situations, and the key thing I've learned is: Don't panic. That's the advice I give people. If anaphylaxis occurs, just do the necessary things. If it's your first time, call and seek emergency assistance and find out exactly what's happening. Get help.
Adrian Peterson
#59. The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.
Evelyn Lauder
#61. I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.
George Gissing
#62. The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.
Tia Mowry
#63. Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it not for his dear habit of coming here every day and finding his old friends on these shelves.
Jules Verne
#64. I'm going to give you some advice: don't be such a whiny asshole. It makes you look weak.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#65. The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison
#66. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
#67. Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.
Aimee Bender
#68. Maybe you're looking for the kind of man who doesn't exist, Ash. You want somebody who'll fit your life perfectly and that'll never happen. There has to be a bit of give and take, you know.'
'I know,' Ash said sharply. 'But I don't want to do all of the giving and none of the taking.
Sheila O'Flanagan
#69. The only advice I can give you ... is to examine who you are ... Figure out what's important to you. Know yourselves. Know what's in your heart. Don't be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.
J-Ax
#70. Advice his father had given him years before sounded in his mind: "In most of what you face, son, you'll make it through if you don't give in to panic." He
William W. Johnstone
#71. I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
Dolly Parton
#72. I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws ... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?
Dita Von Teese
#73. Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.
Charles Saatchi
#74. The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep."
Jessica Pare
#75. Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.
Peter Shaffer
#76. I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee ... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone ... Not on a committee. Not on a team.
Steve Wozniak
#77. I'm giving a lot of opinions, but I don't give any advice. I'm 31 and I'm not married and having kids. I'm five-foot-three. I weigh, like, 150 pounds and I'm not in this position to be telling people how to live.
Mindy Kaling
#78. She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.
Iain Pears
#79. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your children think. So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I'd say, do what is right for you and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks
Gwyneth Paltrow
#80. I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.
Martin Gore
#81. My best advice for anyone out there that feels like, 'I don't have a million followers so why should I even give it a shot,' is that it's not about the numbers - it's about the engagement. That's how you can build influence.
Michelle Phan
#82. I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.
Aziz Ansari
#83. I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
Peter Jennings
#84. ... but how come I can give advice and cheer up other people, but I can't do that with my own life. I don't understand it.
Rae Earl
#85. The advice I would give would be to know that it's ok and natural to be nervous. The key is to rehearse, always be yourself and don't be afraid to not be perfect as we all make mistakes.
Tweet
#86. Here's my advice: The first step to becoming a changemaker (the only secure job going forward) is to give oneself permission, i.e. to ignore - politely, of course - all those who say 'Don't do it
Bill Drayton
#87. I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.
Poppy Z. Brite
#88. Do you want some words of advice, Tess?"
I glanced at Adam's profile as he sipped.
"Don't give your heart away too easily." He turned to me. "Make him earn it.
C.J. Duggan
#89. A piece of advice: if you want to remain in control of a doomsday cult, don't give a date for the end of the world unless you're really, really sure it's going to happen. Being wrong tends to undermine your authority.
Jennifer Bosworth
#90. I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.
Baba Kalyani
#91. Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?
Dada Bhagwan
#92. The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
Tony Lema
#93. Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.
Joyce Carol Oates
#94. I'm giving good advice everyday however I can help. People will hit me up and ask me all types of questions. I really don't know too much except what I've gone through, but whatever knowledge I have, I try and give.
Rahki
#95. Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you ... don't want to end up like me.
Jun Mochizuki
#96. Just remember who you are ... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.
Cinda Williams Chima
#97. Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
Barney Frank
#98. A wise man once asked to his mentor, "What advice would you give the average investor?" his reply was, "DON'T BE AVERAGE.
Celeste Young
#99. Anyhow, be happy. I get the feeling a lot of shit is going to come your way, but you're a stubborn son of a bitch, I'm sure you'll handle it. Mind if I give you one piece of advice?" "Sure, go ahead." "Don't feel sorry for yourself," he said. "Only assholes do that.
Haruki Murakami
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