Quotes About Counsel

good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me -- and, with these things to make a life.

The more choices you give people, the more help with decision making you need to provide.

even if he did sometimes flirt lightly with Betty of Betty's Best Home-Made Pies. It passed the time. Ah, that phrase. A sudden memory of Susan talking about Joan. "We're all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don't find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time." Back then, it had sounded like a counsel of despair; now, it struck him as normal, and emotionally practical.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

Of all persons living, he who does not remember that he has once been young, is the most completely disqualified for giving youthful counsel.

The historian's observation is worth the Christian's remembrance: 'Crafty counsels promise fair at first, but prove more difficult in the managing, and in the end do pay the undertaker home with desperate sorrow.'[9]

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.