Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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

I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.

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

Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

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

It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

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

I've had lots of good advice.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.

Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

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.

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

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

Experience is the pocket-compass that few think of consulting until they have lost their way.

It's been true in my life that when I've needed a mentor, the right person shows up.

My father used to give me a lot of advice.

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

When I had older guys around me, I kind of leaned on them for advice and went through tough times.

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.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.