Counsel Quotes

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

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

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

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

At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel.

In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Evil counsel travels fast.