Quotes & Sayings About Giving Bad Advice

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger. — Horace Walpole

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way. — Sara Bareilles

I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto. — Carrie Fisher

I'm bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself. — Shawn Lukas

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example. — Norman Vincent Peale

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice ... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve. — Ben Heppner

Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice. — Tori Carrington

What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren't dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret."
"Ila was giving me advice on being a woman," Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see.
"Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are."
"That," Egwene said, "is probably why you make such a bad job of it. — Robert Jordan

If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope! — John Waters

Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. — Paul Krugman

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The biggest piece of advice that I give young comedians is: If it's your goal to get where I'm at, go do something else. Because you'll never get here. Never. The odds are so bad. Because not only do you have to be a really, really strong comedian but you also have to be lucky. And most people don't get that combination. — Ron White

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld