Counsellors Quotes:

He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

topic: Counsellors

Every king needs a counsellor, a counsellor who is never afraid of the king.

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Kings, Needs, Counsellors

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

source: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

topic: Teaching, Men, Needs, Counsellors

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

- Charles William Eliot

source: Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Teacher, Joy Of Reading, Counselor

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

- John Gray

topic: Love You, Mirrors, Looks, Innate Goodness, Lecturer

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

- Gary Smalley

topic: Drinking, Sick, Forgiving, Offenders, Drinking Poison

It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Rambler”, p.410

topic: Book, Ambition, Thinking, Counsellors

Be thine own privy counsellor.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Secrecy, Counsellors

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

- Edward Coke

topic: Safety, Workplace, Workplace Safety, Counsellors

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

- Prince Philip

topic: Gun, Rushing, Classic, Counsellors, Rushing Around

Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'

- Mother Teresa

topic: Ideas, Advice, Purpose, Counsellors

When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

- Sun Tzu

topic: Wise, Clever, War, Swiftness, Counsellors

If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.377, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Believe, Years, Training, Counsellors, Adviser

Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

- Alice Munro

topic: Kindness, Blow, Understanding, Counsellors, Understanding Life

Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

- Douglas Adams

source: "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1980.

topic: Stars, Decision, Frustrated, Decision Making Process, Sulking

... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.

- Frances Wright

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, Book, Spiritual Teachers, Counsellors

Anything is possible if you believe in yourself, said the guidance counsellor, stifling a laugh.

- Dana Gould

topic: Believe, Laughing, Guidance, Counsellors, Stifling

Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

- Duff Cooper

topic: Wise, Wine, Firm, Debit, Counsellors

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sibling, Sorrow, Older Sister, Inspirational Brother And Sister

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Teacher, Party, Book, Counsellors

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

- Adam Smith

source: Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.167, VM eBooks

topic: Differences, Favors, Regulation, Workmen, Equitable

All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.

- Clive Ponting

topic: Senior, Advice, Secret, Counsellors

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

- John Gerard

topic: Food, Oil, Cooking, Spanish Proverb, Spendthrift

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell...

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Hate, Love Is, Men, Detest, Counsellors

The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it.

- Ernest Renan

source: Ernest Renan (1883). “Recollections of My Youth”

topic: Light, People, Evil, Counsellors, Restless Spirit

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.54

topic: Love You, Physicians, Use, Counsellors, Why I Love You

Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.

- Jane Porter

topic: Heart, Feet, Tears, Invading, Counsellors

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

- Thomas Huxley

source: Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

topic: Art, Believe, Two, Counsellors

Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.

- Eoin Colfer

source: "Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident". Book by Eoin Colfer, 2002.

topic: Mother, School, Doctors, Counsellors, Artemis Fowl

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

- Isaac Barrow

source: Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works”, p.78

topic: Friendship, Faith, Book, Faithful Friends, Counsellors

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

topic: Character, Smell, Faithful, Counsellors

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

- Johannes Rau

topic: Thinking, Sensitivity, Interest, Counsellors

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.71

topic: Brain, Mentor, Able, Orators, Diffidence

I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

- Robert Boyle

topic: Recovery, Exercise, Science, Counsellors, Hinder

There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.

- Arthur Helps

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Heart, Counsellors, Tumult

It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.40

topic: Wise, Character, Weak, Counsellors

Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy; Companions of my young desires; in doubt My oracles; my wings in high pursuit. Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours; Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul, Our faces beaming with unearthly love;-- Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.

- Robert Pollok

source: Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book V.”

topic: Friends, Grief, Heart, Sorrow Love, Counsellors

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

- Harlan Coben

topic: Responsibility, Sleep, Eight, Counsellors