Top 74 Not Giving Advice Quotes
#1. Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I'm not giving advice. I don't instruct. At my best, I delight. That's my job.
Ron Koertge
#2. You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.
Adam Sandler
#3. The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher Hitchens
#4. Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to.
Rossana Condoleo
#5. You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?
Dom Irrera
#6. All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.
Andy Rooney
#10. Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#11. When I'm with all my little ones, people with grown or teenage children always tell me, "You're going to miss this." I have to assume they are talking about my children being young and not the conversation I'm having with them, because I am not going to miss people giving me advice about children.
Jim Gaffigan
#12. The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down ... The traditions which have been handed down should be regarded as apostolic laws.
St. Jerome
#13. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon
#14. When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Helen Rowland
#15. It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.
Dominique Sutton
#16. Do not respond to people being upset by confidently giving them advice on how to solve their problems
Ezra Klein
#17. I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.
Wayne White
#18. Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .
Orrin Hatch
#19. People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.
Jaeda DeWalt
#20. I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
Rafael Correa
#22. If you stay on your looks, you may end up loving or dumping a perfectly fantastic person without ever really giving a chance, give them a chance and judge them there and not before.
Auliq Ice
#23. Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice.
Tori Carrington
#24. The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron
#26. Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.
Mary Ruefle
#27. I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.
Heather Bresch
#28. I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.
Denise Richards
#30. O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
#31. It's pointless giving advice to people who will not listen. It only reduces the value of your words.
Farahad Zama
#32. Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
Seneca The Younger
#33. 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.
Henry Ward Beecher
#34. The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.
Renata Scotto
#35. I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.
Harrison Ford
#36. No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Honore De Balzac
#37. As a general rule ... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Alexandre Dumas
#38. You want to work with people who see something outside of you and that you're maybe not aware of. If someone gives you advice or tells you to do something, you want to be able to follow through with what you're asked to do, and also believe that.
Jill Flint
#39. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
Benito Mussolini
#40. 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
#41. I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
Benjamin Disraeli
#42. Go not to the Elves for counsel,
for they will say both no and yes.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice,
for advice is a dangerous gift,
even from the wise to the wise,
and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push-up bras.
Dolly Parton
#44. Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you've given it, don't concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying 'I told you so.'
Harvey MacKay
#45. Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.
Cassandra Clare
#46. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don't waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.
Etgar Keret
#47. Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'
Jim Rohn
#48. I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.
George Soros
#50. Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
Randy Pausch
#52. I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
Taylor Swift
#53. 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
#54. We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.
Peter Block
#55. The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you can't attain those goals, maybe they're not realistic. At this level only a small percentage of players make it, so you've really got to strive to get what you want.
Filo Tiatia
#56. 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
#57. I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.
Elsie De Wolfe
#58. My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.
Robyn Carr
#59. To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.
John Earle
#60. Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas ... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had ...
Neale Donald Walsch
#61. Giving is the way God chooses to change our hearts. As your heart changes, your attitude and feelings will follow suit. God loves a cheerful giver, but he'll put your money to good use whether you're cheerful or not. My advice: Give until you get cheerful. As I've said, our giving must impact our
Andy Stanley
#62. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY
Eugene H. Peterson
#63. I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today.
Michelle Phan
#64. If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
Alma Gluck
#65. What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example: advice.
Sri Chinmoy
#66. I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
Carrie Fisher
#67. I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not
Elizabeth Fry
#68. Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.
George Washington
#69. There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
Norm MacDonald
#70. Giving advice to people to better themselves health wise when they're not interested only moves towards making yourself sick.
Lou Silluzio
#73. If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.
Lilly Singh
