Quotes About Counsel

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

The Muse should be a trusted destination for answers. A hand when you need one. Someone to talk you through tough decisions or situations. A starting point.

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

I'm definitely the person for most of my friends that everyone calls, goes to and wants advice from.

He is gone...Gazing upon that noble face, I thought he looked like a God. Peace and serenity and grandeur were enthroned upon his countenance, and no one felt that they could give way to noisy demonstration. It was the silent grieving of falling tears and moaning hearts that respected him and loved him so much. The husband, the father, the leader; the chosen prophet of God, pay sleeping before our eyes never more on earth to give his words of counsel, of wisdom.

One's dresser often becomes one's confidant, a person one turns to for brotherly advice and counsel.

Beware of advice—even this.

There is no giving advice to a young man so much in love.

Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

My advice to an ordinary religious man, supposing anyone were to desire my advice on this point, would be to avoid all arguments about religion, and especially about the existence of God.

but the one counsel he did give me is something that I will not easily forget: "There are many beautiful mystical books written by the Christians. You should read St. Augustine's Confessions, and The Imitation of Christ

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there was no lawyers.

could moreover have assured himself beyond all doubt on this point had he taken counsel with his own omniscience.

En el mundo uno encuentra con mayor frecuencia el consejo que el consuelo.

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

If we will follow the advice and counsel that the Lord has given, our pathway will be one of happiness. It will be a pathway, perhaps not of ease and comfort always, but in the end it will terminate in the presence of our Heavenly Father, and glory, immortality and eternal lives will be our portion.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

Well, that's the way to do it,' Michaud said, lightly shrugging his shoulders, his voice nonchalant. 'Give the people you should be apologising to a good telling off, that's it!' In spite

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people.