Giving Advice Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Funny, Success, Giving

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• A fop sometimes gives important advice.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Giving, Advice, Important

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto IV)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

  Mae West

  Stars, Thinking, Clothes

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Acceptance, Giving, Advice

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Garden, Giving

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 20, 2011

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• Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Giving, Advice

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, True Friend

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• The worst men often give the best advice.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Giving, Advice

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• Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Ice Cream, Dessert

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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

  Norm MacDonald

  Character, Giving, Advice

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

  William Feather

  People, Giving, Advice

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• 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

  Heart, Thinking, Situations In Life

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Anne Heche

  Giving, Advice, Tricky

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• 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

  Communication, Writing, Giving

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• We are never so generous as when giving advice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Advice, Generous

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

  Sam Ewing

  Giving, Advice, Favors

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

  Jack Nicholson

  Hate, People, Giving

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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

  Rafael Correa

  Giving, Advice, Accustomed

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Giving

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Responsibility, Giving, Advice

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• 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.

  William H. McMaster

  Real, Men, Order

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• 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.

  Guinevere Van Seenus

  Motivation, Fighting, People

  "The Secrets of Guinevere Van Seenus". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2016.

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