Counsel Quotes · Page 3

“Night brings good counsel", my grandmother always told me.”

— Marjane Satrapi

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

— Thomas a Kempis

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

— Elizabeth Berg

Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

— Bible

Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.

— Mark Dever

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

— Robert Luskin

“Accept corrections and you’ll improve and increase.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“One of the primary reasons we don’t seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we…

— Andy Stanley

My grandfather was the general counsel for the Washington Senators, and my dad grew up on Ted Williams' lap.

— Alex Bregman

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

— Al Gore

My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see…

— Bram Stoker

If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of…

— David Jeremiah

By definition, a Special Counsel is charged with investigating particular potential crimes, not all potential crimes wherever they may be found.

— William Barr

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that…

— Brent Scowcroft

“I honestly believe that the counsel I gave Curt was mainly sound, and I don't think too much of it was holier-than-thou.…

— Wallace Stegner

“THE COURT Never forget, Counsel, this is a court of redundancy. COUNSEL Your Honor, I will always never forget this is a…

— Charles M. Sevilla

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking…

— Paul Hoffman

“..you are retained as counsel for unhappy mankind. You have promised to help those in peril by sea, those in captivity, the…

— Seneca

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

— Sallust

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

— Marvin Sapp

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

— Russell M. Nelson

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

— Anonymous

“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?”

— Anonymous

“A law without sanctions is no law; it is only counsel, or advice.”

— Charles Grandison Finney

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

— J R R Tolkien

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

— Francine Mathews

Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.

— Cathy Engelbert

Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.

— Thiruvalluvar

“I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel;”

— Richard Colgan

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Harry Belafonte