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.
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.
There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
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!
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We the viewing public did by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
With the counseling of my family doctor my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size and it wasn't two burgers it was one.
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
If you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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.
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.
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.