Quotes About Counsel

Advice is only meant for those that listen to it and also accept it.

Most people give advice based on their own personal experience and gathered opinions.

Most people who seek advice, are simply looking for affirmation. And they will seek as much 'advice' as it takes to get the affirmation they seek.

Asking your best friend what you should text back.

Your own advice is sometimes the hardest to take.

If you give advice to someone else, make sure its something you would adhere to. Follow your own advice!

The ones who give the best advice, are usually the ones who have the most problems.

If someone seeks advice, give them direction, not correction. Do not force your opinions on others. Steer them to make their owns decisions.

I asked for your advice but now I'm angry with you because I don't like your advice.

A woman's counsel is not worth much, but he that despises it is no wiser than he should be

Three may keep counsel, if two be away

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

To advise is not to compel.

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct.

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

The best people seldom give you the best advice.

When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants - and I give it to him.

Who needs advice most, usually likes it least.

And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

He who takes advice is wiser than the one who gives it.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.