Browsing Topic Best Giving Advice Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

The reason I give away all my best advice is because if somebody is better executing than me it’s going to happen anyway. So I think the world has abundance.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that’s been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let’s make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let’s give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we’re here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.

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

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

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.

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.

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

A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.

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.

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.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

The worst men often give the best advice.

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.

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

I am not fond of giving advice; people are different, circumstances are different, motivations vary, but overall I would say that no amount of success or attention will create happiness in your life unless one is happy within themselves and we learn that the money won’t buy it. So find out what brings you joy and inspires happiness, and fight for it.

In giving advice I advise you, be short.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

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

Listening to learn isn’t about giving advice–at least not until asked–but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation…. Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter’s growing and changing self.

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.

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

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

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.

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

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

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