Magento 2 Customer XML – How to Remove My Account Navigation Links

Step 1: Go to ( yourPackage/YourTemplate/customer/account/navigation.phtml )

Step 2: Replace the below line

<?php $count = count($links); ?>

        **With**

<?php $_count = count($_links); /* Add or Remove Account Left Navigation Links Here -*/
      unset($_links['account']); /* Account Info */     
      unset($_links['account_edit']); /* Account Info */            
      unset($_links['tags']); /* My Tags */
      unset($_links['invitations']); /* My Invitations */
      unset($_links['reviews']);  /* Reviews */
      unset($_links['wishlist']); /* Wishlist */
      unset($_links['newsletter']); /* Newsletter */
      unset($_links['orders']); /* My Orders */
      unset($_links['address_book']); /* Address */
      unset($_links['enterprise_customerbalance']); /* Store Credit */
      unset($_links['OAuth Customer Tokens']); /* My Applications */
      unset($_links['enterprise_reward']); /* Reward Points */
      unset($_links['giftregistry']); /* Gift Registry */
      unset($_links['downloadable_products']); /* My Downloadable Products */
      unset($_links['recurring_profiles']); /* Recurring Profiles */
      unset($_links['billing_agreements']); /* Billing Agreements */
      unset($_links['enterprise_giftcardaccount']); /* Gift Card Link */
?>

The above code snippet contains the way to remove all the navigation links. Hope this will help all.

Reference Link: https://github.com/Aproducktion/Magento-Remove-Dashboard-Links

you can just use remove it with simple xml tag. which you can add it to your local.xml of your theme to remove dashboard link which should be like below

<customer_account>
         <reference name="left">
            <!--Unset the whole block then add back later-->
            <action method="unsetChild"><name>customer_account_navigation</name></action>
            <!-- if you don't want to add any link just skip below part -->
            <block type="customer/account_navigation" name="customer_account_navigation" before="-" template="customer/account/navigation.phtml"> 
            <action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer"><name>account</name><path>customer/account/</path><label>Account Dashboard</label></action>
            </block>
        </reference>
</customer_account>