Seek Counsel Quotes

#1. Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.

Danielle Cormack

#2. One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear
and we just don't want to hear it.

Andy Stanley

#3. Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.

M. Russell Ballard

#4. In certain situations you ask to see a sign to guide you in the right direction. Sometimes these calls to a higher power are answered and sometimes we are left to seek counsel from within. But if you look for them, the signs will usually present themselves to those with open eyes.

Adam Braun

#5. Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.

Vincent De Paul

#6. Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.

A.J. Darkholme

#7. It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#8. He'd obviously spent his college years refining the art of adolescence...

Jenifer LeClair

#9. Passion was part of what made us human. I wanted to be more than just a lawyer. I wanted to be a human too!

N.M. Silber

#10. When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.

Neal A. Maxwell

#11. For a lot of the players it was their first exposure to the Southern female - the most flagrant cheater in the mutual disarmament pact known as feminism. Lipstick! Hairdos! Submissiveness!

Michael Lewis

#12. I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground
the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.

Quentin L. Cook

#13. Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.

Rajneesh

#14. Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Khalil Gibran

#15. I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

Arthur Miller

#16. 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.

Pauline Phillips

#17. I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

Gary Johnson

#18. Intonation is important, especially when it is cold.

Eugene Ormandy

#19. What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#20. Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

Roger Rosenblatt

#21. It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by ... ' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too.

Xavier Dolan

#22. So this is where stylists go when they've outlived their use. To sad theme underwear shops where they wait for death.

Suzanne Collins

#23. Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.

Ronald Reagan

#24. Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#25. The thing you are most
afraid to write
Write that.

Nayyirah Waheed

#26. The wise need the least advice,
but seek it the most.
The foolish need counsel the most,
but seek it the least.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

Jorge Luis Borges

#28. I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions ...

Carew Papritz

#29. Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

Napoleon Hill

#30. Enjoy writers and entertainers but don't substitute their synthesis of truth and reality for your own. Seek your own counsel as much as you can. Dependence on any one or anything else will eventually result in disappointment and this may be, as it always was.

Nikhil Sharda

#31. EZE7.26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

Anonymous

#32. A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Jim George

#33. Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands.

Charles R. Swindoll

#34. Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

Conrad Hall

#35. When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

Winston Churchill