Accepting Advice Quotes

I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.