Quotes About Counsel

Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.

If consultants followed their own advice, they wouldn't tell anyone.

There are two things you should never do alone: one is get divorced, the other is drink.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Beware of advice—even this.

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.

A prophet or prophetess then, is a spokesperson for God, one who hears the voice of the Holy Spirit and speaks or pens God's mind or counsel through a

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

Meanwhile the old Marquess, visibly moved, was charging Odo to respect his elders and superiors, while in the same breath warning him not to take up with the Frenchified notions of the court, but to remember that for a lad of his condition the chief virtues were a tight seat in the saddle, a quick hand on the sword and a slow tongue in counsel. Mind your own business, he concluded, and see that others mind theirs. The Marchioness thereupon, with many tears, hung a

In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.

We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity, that loves courage, but commands counsel.

If the temptation hooks our desires, we go public. We confess it to a friend, we confess it to the Lord, we get other people praying for us, we ask for counsel that helps us to see that the Serpent is dangerous. Above all, we remember that God's commands are good. They are intended to bless us.

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

But where's the man who counsel can bestow,Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know?

Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Tis not enough, your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do;

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

I have plenty of good people around me I can talk to and for me it's the man in the mirror that gives the answers if I have hard times or if I doubt.

The attorney doesn't decide what to do; the client ultimately decides what to do.

We're living in a world where clients constantly are saying to me, 'The most important thing you can do is to tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear.'