Quotes About Counsel

We are all apprentices, Maisie. Even when we think we've graduated to another rung on the ladder of experience, there is always much to learn. Every soul who comes to me for counsel gives me another lesson in return, and I am humbled and made new by each fresh opportunity to serve.

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

A man who would give advice without understanding is a fool.

Certainly, it's wise to ask for counsel in whatever you endeavor to do. There is safety in that. But when the asking comes from a place of dependence, it is unhealthy.

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

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.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.