Unsolicited Advice Quotes

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

YOU WILL SEE it coming. Not you actually because you don't see for yourself yet, everyone is busy seeing for you, days filled with unsolicited advice you don't take and trite warnings you can't hear and the whitewashing of all your excitement. Yes, they definitely saw it coming, exactly the way it came. When ~ Stephanie Danler

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

Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him. ~ C.J. Langenhoven

I'm gonna give you some unsolicited advice, okay?" Dan peered at me, as though making sure I knew to take his words seriously. "But it's good advice, even though I'm tired as hell, so it might not make much sense."
"Sure. Go for it." Even in my muddled state, I couldn't help but smile at my friend.
"You like that guy, you tell him flat out. You just lay what you want and everything out there. Don't waste time not saying things that need to be said. He'll always be in your mind, wrecking the possibility of things with other people, because your heart can't move on until it knows for sure a door is closed."
I managed a reassuring smile. "Thanks for the ad - "
"But then, if the door opens, make sure it's the right door, not a different door. Because then you'll be in the room, but it's not the right room. And then you're stuck in the room, you've committed to the room, and you'd be an asshole for trying a new door in the same house when you're already in a room. And then your fucking heart won't stop looking for a window. ~ Penny Reid

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving. ~ Amy Dickinson

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life. ~ Bernard Williams

Tact by its nature entails staying mum, prudently electing to forgo urging other people to pursue an alternative course of action. Creation of silent spaces in our own life and equitable distribution of periods of respite that allow for periods of equable inner reflection is necessary to spur personal growth. It is equally important to honor other people's intrinsic need for periods of introspection, uninterrupted by unsolicited advice ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

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

Do the Tao Now Spend an hour, a day, a week, or a month practicing not giving unsolicited advice. Stop yourself for an instant and call upon your silent knowing. Ask a question, rather than giving advice or citing an example from your life, and then just listen to yourself and the other person. As Lao-tzu would like you to know, that's the highest state of man. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

If you want to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), then you cannot give unsolicited advice. Give advice only when it is asked for. In order to give advice, you have to become the chief! ~ Dada Bhagwan

This is why unsolicited advice can sound like such judgment. We might mean well, but it still might hurt the other person. ~ Jodi Aman

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

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

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

Unsolicited advice is usually more about the needs of the giver than the receiver. ~ Charles F. Glassman

There is nothing as worthless as unsolicited advice. ~ Haresh Sippy

before you open your mouth, ask yourself, "Is it in the best interest of the relationship for me to give this unsolicited advice?" If not, then keep quiet. ~ Christy Largent

The first principle of recovery is the empowerment of the survivor. She must be the author and arbiter of her own recovery. Others may offer advice, support, assistance, affection, and care, but not cure. ~ Judith Lewis Herman

Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live! ~ Tennessee Williams

Create the worlds of your choice by writing the books you want. ~ Marcia Carrington

The solution is commitment to whatever is in front of you;
Because
It's not always what you wanna do but the options in front of you ~ Bandile Matsenjwa

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself. ~ David Frost

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

We men really, really, really like sex. We like sex so much, many of us are willing to risk getting in serious trouble to get it. That's why laws against rape haven't stopped rape, and why laws against prostitution haven't stopped prostitution, and why men who cheat on their wives would continue to cheat even if it was illegal, and why gay men continue to be gay even in fundamentalist religious countries like Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is punishable by death. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Take it from me, its hip to be square. ~ Huey Lewis

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Things can get good again. Even things like a marriage. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune. ~ Julion Okram

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. ~ Benjamin Franklin

You need to be willing to wipe the slate clean and admit that you may not know everything about running. This is the best advice I can give for staying injury-free ~ Michael Sandler

A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way ... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on ... unless of course you prefer sand. ~ K.E. Garvey

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow. ~ Holly Lisle

Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer. ~ Jacob M. Appel

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. ~ Juan Manuel, Prince Of Villena

He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hold fast to the love of your life ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

WE MUST ENJOY THE PRESENT, EVERYDAY THERE IS SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING THAT WE CAN BE GRATEFUL FOR. ~ Linda Alfiori

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field. ~ John Waters

I'm not someone who offers advice. I don't believe people really want anything besides sympathy when they ask for advice. I know I don't. ~ Bijou Hunter

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme. ~ Mason Cooley

Pride makes us rest content with ourselves - think we are good enough as we are - keep us from taking advice - refuse the gospel of Christ - turn every one to his own way. But pride never reigns anywhere so powerfully as in the heart of a young man. ~ J.C. Ryle

Nothing guarantees happiness. I'm not certain happiness should be the goal. Satisfaction, maybe. A sense of purpose. Contribution. Authenticity. Happiness? It's a lightweight goal. And meanwhile, I suspect that turning away from yourself will guarantee the opposite of happiness. ~ Danielle Younge-Ullman

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Word of God, strengthen the spirit! Mediate on it daily! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A good deal of the corporate planning I have observed is like a ritual rain dance; it has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think it does. Moreover, it seems to me that much of the advice and instruction related to corporate planning is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather. ~ Russell L. Ackoff

Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head. ~ S.A. Tawks

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. ~ Patricia Cornwell