A Quote by Ali ibn Abi Talib

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Advice Destroys Good Good Advice Stubbornness

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Ali ibn Abi Talib
Priest
600 - 661

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

Al Franken

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

Abu Hurairah

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Martin Luther

Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

Fulton J. Sheen

Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

Jules Feiffer

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Laurence J. Peter

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

Robert Breault

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

Robert Breault

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

Vidal Sassoon

Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.

Charles B. Rangel

I've never been good at giving advice. The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I'm just a girl.