Andre Maurois Quotes

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

It's so much easier to give advice than to take it.

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

Don't ever think, no matter how old you are, that you don't need to be coached.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

If somebody is willing to take some advice, then I have some, and that's just life in general. A lot of people don't want to hear anything.

Basically, I've always raised my kids that people learn from their mistakes, and every father wants their kids to be better than them.

As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.

Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.