Unsolicited Advice Quotes

• There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Advice, Opinion

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• Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.

  Bernard Williams

  Advice, Junk, Mail

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• To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

  John Gray

  Men, Advice, Mind Your Own Business

  John Gray (2012). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Self, Advice

  Interview with Patrick B. Anderson, lacrossetribune.com. March 30, 2012.

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• 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

  Giving, Advice, I've Learned

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• Distrust unsolicited advice.

  Aesop

  Advice, Distrust

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Insulate yourself...
  from anonymous angry people
  Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand
  Precisely measure the results that are important to you
  Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter
  Fail often
  Ship
  Lead, don't manage so much
  Seek out uncomfortable situations
  Make an impact on the people who matter to you
  Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
  Copyedit less, invent more
  Give more speeches
  Ignore unsolicited advice

  Seth Godin

  Art, Impact, Skills

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Names, People, Giving

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Way

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.168, Lulu.com

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• So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

  Tina Fey

  Inspirational, Witty, Funny Motivational

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

  Gayle King

  Giving, People, Advice

  Source: wwd.com

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• That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Years, Advice

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• As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.

  Nelson Mandela

  Years, Advice, Progress

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• Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.

  Diablo Cody

  Reading, Advice, Competition

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