Top 100 Quotes About Giving Advice
#1. I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
Omar Sharif
#2. I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life where you don't know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don't want to.
Paul F. Tompkins
#3. I'm none too big on giving advice,'
Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.
Jeannette Walls
#5. I'm bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself.
Shawn Lukas
#6. She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.
Maureen Johnson
#7. I am always giving advice to young players about how things are, how important it is to work hard every day to reach the glory days.
Milagros Cabral
#8. Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#9. To his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked.
Charles Baxter
#11. 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
#12. The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.
Norm MacDonald
#13. I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
Benjamin Disraeli
#14. Life lesson that sucks? Giving advice is way easier than living your own life. Life lesson that sucks worse? Realizing this after you've severely fucked up.
Kristen Callihan
#15. I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
Joan Chen
#16. Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.
Richelle Mead
#17. Giving advice to people to better themselves health wise when they're not interested only moves towards making yourself sick.
Lou Silluzio
#18. 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
#19. I've never been good at giving advice. The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I'm just a girl.
Gwen Stefani
#20. 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
#22. Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.
Howard Warren Buffett
#23. In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
Norm MacDonald
#24. When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#25. The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.
Sam Ewing
#26. It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.
Anne Heche
#28. Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
Alexander Pope
#29. Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. In giving advice I advise you, be short.
Horace
#31. I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click.
Nick Lachey
#32. I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
Jack Nicholson
#33. 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
#34. All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.
Kinky Friedman
#35. Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.
Chip R. Bell
#36. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon
#37. There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett
#38. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#39. No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#40. So now that began to develop into a full-fledged shouting match of its own, and all in all it was soon a full-scale old-style Bombay tamasha, with people watching from every balcony and window in every building, up and down the road, laughing and giving advice and yelling at each other.
Vikram Chandra
#41. I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.
Lilly Singh
#42. 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
#43. It's pointless giving advice to people who will not listen. It only reduces the value of your words.
Farahad Zama
#44. The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Paulo Coelho
#45. I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
Rafael Correa
#47. I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.
Nick Cave
#48. That's the thing about giving advice, she could say. It might come back to haunt you.
Jennifer Close
#49. Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.
William Feather
#50. What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.
Paul Walker
#51. Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.
Taylor Swift
#53. My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.
Ivan Boesky
#54. As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.
Amy Dickinson
#55. 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
#56. Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#57. 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
#58. Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
Charles De Lint
#59. It's easy to think people have no business giving you advice when it isn't the advice you want to hear.
Katie Kacvinsky
#60. The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you'd still be doing it. You've got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.
Warren Buffett
#61. Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend to give advice to others on how to deal with corruption.
Narendra Modi
#63. 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
#64. The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
Andrea Davis Pinkney
#65. 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
#66. Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#67. 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
#68. I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.
Sara Sheridan
#69. He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
Mark Twain
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?
David Letterman
#76. The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.
Melissa Rivers
#77. Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
Barbara Mertz
#78. The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.
Richard Branson
#79. The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.
Russell Edson
#80. Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
Randy Pausch
#81. Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
Bob Dole
#82. I saw this college team bowling championship. Each team had their own coach. What kind of strategy advice is a bowling coach giving? "You know what? This time Timmy, I want you to knock down all the pins." "You sure?" "Trust me. Just do it son!"
Jim Gaffigan
#83. Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.
Roy Blount Jr.
#86. Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
Ambrose Bierce
#87. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
Benito Mussolini
#89. 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
#90. I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
Michael Caine
#91. I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regularly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices.
Rick Riordan
#92. 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
#93. An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.
Veronica Roth
#95. 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
#96. As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.
Ted Cruz
#97. Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Nan Fairbrother
#98. Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.
Paul Krugman
#99. If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.
Mary Sue Milliken
