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If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Better Counsel comes overnight. -- Doris Lessing
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. -- Walter Benjamin
Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy. -- Xenocrates
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy. -- Seneca the Younger
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. -- Benjamin Franklin
Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who -- Dr Paul Gitwaza
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. -- John Ford
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself. -- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power. -- David Jeremiah
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself. -- Oscar Wilde
Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing. -- Cherie Blair
Never take counsel of your fears. -- Stonewall Jackson
I have only one counsel for you - be master. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people. -- Marvin Sapp
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. -- Khalil Gibran
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. -- George S. Patton
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it. -- Hesiod
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? -- Queen Elizabeth II
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. -- Francis Bacon
Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others. -- David A. Bednar
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. -- Joan Rivers
A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship. -- James E. Faust
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. -- Samuel Johnson
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. -- Elizabeth Blackwell
I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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! -- George S. Patton
Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it. -- Richard Holbrooke
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation. -- David A. Bednar
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache. -- John Bytheway
God offers us counsel not just for our own safety, but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few comforts so sweet as to know that we have been an instrument in the hands of God in leading someone else to safety. That blessing generally requires the faith to follow counsel when it is hard to do. -- Henry B. Eyring
Evil counsel travels fast. -- Sophocles
Take not counsel of your fears -- George S. Patton
Friendly counsel cuts off many foes. -- William Shakespeare
No driven man hears unwanted counsel. -- Janny Wurts
Diversity in counsel, unity in command. -- Cyrus the Great
I never take counsel of my fears. -- George S. Patton
Two may keep counsel putting one away! -- William Shakespeare
Only lies offend me, never honest counsel. -- George R. R. Martin
A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth. -- Esaias Tegner
Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome. -- William Shakespeare
Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers. -- Colin Powell
Light is that grief which counsel can allay. -- Seneca the Younger
That grief is light which can take counsel. -- Seneca the Younger
To the counsel of fools a wooden bell. -- George Herbert
Ask counsel of him who rules himself well. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches. -- Lancelot Andrewes
Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you. -- William Shakespeare
Three may keep counsel, if two be away. -- John Heywood
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. -- Benjamin Franklin
When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel. -- Laurel Lea
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear -- Edgar Guest
Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded. -- Francine Mathews
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library. -- Charles Lamb
Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans. -- Silius Italicus
They say that the best counsel is that of woman. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. -- William Shakespeare
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. -- Benjamin Franklin
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. -- George Chapman
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. -- Francis Bacon
Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought. -- Thiruvalluvar
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly. -- Sallust
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel. -- Daniel Craig
Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him -- Proverb
He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands. -- Umar
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. -- Confucius
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. -- Max Ehrmann
A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it. -- Larry Burkett
I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears. -- George S. Patton
In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers. -- Walter Benjamin
Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel takeâ??and sometimes tea. -- Alexander Pope
Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel. -- Howard W. Hunter
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray. -- Hesiod
Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. -- James I of Scotland
Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating. -- M. Russell Ballard
Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. -- Alexander Pope
If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee. -- Christina Dodd
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul. -- John Ray
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to. -- Warren G. Bennis
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. -- Alexander Pope
Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. -- Christopher Lasch
You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears. -- Sandy Woodward
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). -- George Herbert
If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.] -- George Herbert
I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client. -- Robert L. Peters
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel. -- Jonathan Swift
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything. -- Vincent de Paul
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. -- Aeschylus
At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony. -- Robert Luskin
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself. -- Francois Rabelais
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. -- Hesiod
My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European. -- Tom Kettle
It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. -- Alexander Pope
Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive. -- William Shakespeare
You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel. -- Harry Belafonte
I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it. -- Thomas a Kempis
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears. -- Thomas S. Monson
Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction. -- A. Theodore Tuttle
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel. -- Donna Woolfolk Cross
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers. -- Aeschylus
Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress. -- Cassandra Clare
Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears. -- Ernest Hemingway

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