Quotes About Counsel

Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherein, and how, they have degenerate; but yet ask counsel of both times; of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest.

For government; let it be in the hands of one, assisted with some counsel; and let them have commission to exercise martial laws, with some limitation. And above all, let men make that profit, of being in the wilderness, as they have God always, and his service, before their eyes.

It is a strange thing to behold, what gross errors and extreme absurdities many (especially of the greater sort) do commit, for want of a friend to tell them of them.

For the remedies; there may be some general preservatives, whereof we will speak: as for the just cure, it must answer to the particular disease; and so be left to counsel, rather than rule.

And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer, than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment; which is ever infused, and drenched, in his affections and customs.

Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair of counsel; neither was there ever prince, bereaved of his dependences, by his counsel, except where there hath been, either an over-greatness in one counsellor, or an over-strict combination in divers; which are things soon found, and holpen.

I have good people around me who guide me, tell me where I should put my money.

When I was in school, I had no one to guide me apart from my parents and teachers.

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The heartfelt counsel of a friend is sweet as perfume and incense. —Proverbs 27:9

Always seek the wisdom of those who love you. They may have just the right word for your situation. — Jerry Hamilton —

An open rebuke is better than hidden love! —Proverbs 27:5

O woman's counsel is so often cold! A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go Where he had been so merry, so well at ease.

Here may men see how Sin will reap his reward. Beware, for no man knows whom God will smite, nor when, nor in which manner. The worm of conscience will burrow deep within and terrify the wicked soul, though his evil be so secret that no man knows thereof but God and he. For, be he ignorant or learned, he knows not when Death will overtake him. Therefore, I advise you this counsel to take: forsake Sin, or Sin will leave you forsaken.

The Book says, 'Whilst that you keep your counsel in your heart, you keep it in your prison, and, when you disclose your counsel unto any person, he holds you in his prison.' And, therefore, it is better to hide your counsel in your heart, than entreat him to whom you have revealed your secret to keep it close and still. For Seneca says, 'If it be so that you can not keep your own counsel, how can you then ask any person to keep your counsel hidden?

For Solomon says, "When you have no audience, do not try to speak." Whereupon did this wise man say, "I see well that the common proverb is true, that 'Good counsel is most wanting when it is most needed.

And take this for a general rule: Every counsel which is affirmed so strongly that it may not be changed for any condition that may befall, I say this counsel is wicked.

Speak we now of wicked counsel, for he who gives wicked counsel is a traitor. He deceives the one who trusted in him, as Achitophel did unto Absalom. But, nevertheless, his wicked counsel is first against himself. For, as says the Wise Man, "Every deceitful liar has this property in himself: that he who would harm another man, he harms himself first.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

Larry Hjort, an AIDS activist, gave counsel to people who were overwhelmed with the needs of their dying friends. "Everyone is perfectly adequate," he said. "There are just some impossible situations.