Advice Quotes

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.

I am going to Texas, and you can go to Hell!

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

He [John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. That is all the ill that can be said of him.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

Sometimes your advice prevails; sometimes it doesn’t prevail. It’s not a matter of winning or losing.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

I'm not in the business of warning people.

I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of characters, even that of disinterestedness

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

Without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel you think best.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.