Top 145 Counselor Quotes & Sayings

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

My job is simply to give advice, to be a counselor to our nation's leaders.

I'm a camp counselor for pop stars.

Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Recognizing chronic sadness may encourage someone to reach out to a friend, family member, or counselor rather than concealing the distress.

I only learned what an engineer was from a college guidance counselor. When she described it, a light clicked on in my head, and I said, 'Yes, that's what I want to do.'

Haste is a poor counselor

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

I’ve lost her. Can you give me any guidance?” – Sundown “On what? A new personality? Car buying? I’m a Wolf, cowboy, not a life counselor.” – Sasha

I grew up going to church every Sunday and my mother was a drug and alcohol counselor, so both of my parents' lives have been about helping people at times of crisis.

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.

Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

I went on to become a drug counselor and then I became a mother, which is the biggest gift I've ever had.

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

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.

I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That's one of the reasons I was a psychology major.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.

Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.

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.

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]

I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too.

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.

My mother did an incredible job - one, of just being a great mom, but two, of instilling a tremendous amount of empathy into me as a young man, as a young person. My mom was kind of this collector of people; throughout my childhood, it didn't matter who you were. She was a high school counselor and then a junior high counselor, and she didn't just counsel students, she counseled other teachers and administrators and coaches.

If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.

If you know a good player who is tempted by pool hustling, introduce him at once to a career guidance counselor, a psychotherapist, or a surgeon who does lobotomies.

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

I left 'Octomom.' I went back to my life as a counselor.

I worked at Planned Parenthood for eight years, rising through the ranks from volunteer escort to clinic counselor to clinic director.

I've come to the conclusion that you shouldn't have to see a genetic counselor. It should be a choice.

I went to a counselor for years, and it wasn't the kind of counseling to help you - it was the 'Let's make you straight' type - but counsellors can help.