We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Sure I could give advice I could say travel the world listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer then you have to make dances.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
My success was due to good luck hard work and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
When I was 40 my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.