Counsellors Quotes

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Teaching, Men, Needs

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

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

Charles William Eliot

Book, Reading, Library

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

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

Charles William Eliot

Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

"The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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

Life, Smile, Graduation

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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

Love, Relationship, Appreciation

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

Gary Smalley

Drinking, Sick, Forgiving

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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

Book, Ambition, Thinking

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

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Be thine own privy counsellor.

Benjamin Disraeli

Secrecy

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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

Edward Coke

Safety, Workplace, Workplace Safety

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

Prince Philip

Gun, Rushing, Classic

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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

Ideas, Advice, Purpose

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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

Wise, Clever, War

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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

Believe, Years, Training

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.

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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

Kindness, Blow, Understanding

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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

Stars, Decision, Frustrated

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

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Kings, Needs

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... 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

Spiritual, Teacher, Book

Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

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

Dana Gould

Believe, Laughing, Guidance

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Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.

Duff Cooper

Wise, Silly, Wine

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

Pam Brown

Sister, Sibling, Sorrow

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Teacher, Party, Book

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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

Differences, Favors, Regulation

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

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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

Senior, Advice, Secret

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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

Food, Oil, Cooking

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