Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

Get out of harms way.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.

Neil Gaiman

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

John Steinbeck

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

John Steinbeck

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Nicki Minaj

Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

John Wright

I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.

John Wooden

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

Meg Cabot

So take my advice: whatever you do? Don’t blink

Plato

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

Philip Sidney

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Paulo Coelho

When I had all the answers, the questions changed.

Matthew Henry

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Mason Cooley

The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.

Mason Cooley

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Mason Cooley

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

Mason Cooley

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

Mason Cooley

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

Mason Cooley

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

Michael Jordan

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

Marie Dressler

No vice is so bad as advice.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt

Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.

Theodor Adorno

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Kin Hubbard

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.

Kin Hubbard

A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends.

Michael Bloomberg

I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.

Michael Bloomberg

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

Michael Palmer

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

Dikembe Mutombo

I just love kids. As a kid, I grew up in a poor country with a poor family that had nothing. I loved anyone who could come into my life, in from the outside, and give me advice that could help me succeed. I believe that there are a lot of people who came into my life that made me Dikembe Mutombo.

Ann Landers

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''

If I was to meet him, I would talk business first, get some business advice and then talk some music. He is an entrepreneur; he did it all himself.