Quotes About Counsel

Very well. I can wait. May I give you a bit of advice?" "Please do." "Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

Methought its spirit whispered evil counsel, soothing me to traitorous somnolence with a damnable rhythmical promise which it repeated over and over.

Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.

And lawyers are just like doctors. Whatever one says, the other says just the opposite. But they all take money and give advice. Each of them, different advice.

We literally lawyered our heads off. Morning, noon, and night all we heard was lawyer, lawyer, lawyer.

The Torah, then, was compact, transferable history, law, wisdom, poetic chant, prophecy, consolation and self-strengthening counsel. Just as the sanctuary could be erected in safety and dismantled in crisis, the speaking scroll was designed to survive even incineration, because the scribes who had composed and edited it had memorised its oral traditions and its texts as part of their basic education.

Books speak plain when counselors blanch.

Can love be controll'd by advice?

God is in this crisis. Ask him to give you an index card–sized plan, two or three steps you can take today. Seek counsel from someone who has faced a similar challenge. Ask friends to pray. Look for resources. Reach out to a support group. Most importantly, make a plan.

In the multitude of counsellors there is safety" (Proverbs 11:14).

Ravn had given me much advice and all of it was good, but now, in the night wind, I remembered just one thing he had said to me on the night we first met, something I had never forgotten. Never, he had said, never fight Ubba.

it's a foolish king who doesn't listen to his advisers. -It's a foolish king, who doesn't know which advisers to trust.

Then they believed His promises and sang His praise. They soon forgot His works and would not wait for His counsel. Psalm 106:12–13

'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.

We will always need to ask God for His wisdom and counsel about everything, because He is the only one who knows the whole truth

A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5

14.  By means of these seven considerations I can forecast victory or defeat. 15.  The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer:—let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat:—let such a one be dismissed!

was easy to give someone else advice, but much harder to know what to do yourself.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

But her advice had been excremental.