Top 1200 Giving Advice Quotes & Sayings

Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

Maybe I think too highly of myself, but I think maybe sometimes I can give some good advice - sometimes bad advice, I'm sure - and I think that's a way of giving back.

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.

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

Actually, I think you have to know that whatever advice you give, they may not take it. The priority should be on keeping the friendship rather than giving the best advice. Your best advice is usually, 'Walk away from him! Tell him you never want to see him again!' But if you are dealing with someone still in love, nothing you say can change their feelings. All you can do is be there for them and pick them up every time they get hurt. Until, that is, they are ready to move on for themselves.

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.

I was always the person that was giving advice and helping.

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.

I feel very ill-equipped to be giving anyone advice about their life.

Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

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.

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Sometimes I learn by someone giving me warnings and giving me advice about what to do next. And other times, a lot of times, I have to put my hand into the fire.

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.

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.

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

When we assume that 'normal' people need 'time to heal,' or discourage individuals from making any decisions until a year or more after a loss, as some grief counselors do, we may be giving inappropriate advice. Such advice can cause people who feel ready to move on to wonder if they are hardhearted.

In giving advice I advise you, be short.

I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

We are never so generous as when giving advice.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Surround yourself with people that you know will take care of you. It's not so much a mistake advice - it's just advice advice.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

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.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

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.

The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.

In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

I try to avoid giving advice.

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

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.

Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

I don't believe in giving advice.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn don't go together. Because advice makes love sound like some sort of cognitive activity, but we know that it isn't. We all know that it's some sort of horrible chemical reaction over which we have absolutely no control. And that's why advice doesn't work.