Associates Quotes

• Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Goal, Inspire

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2014

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• Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Wise, Important Choices

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• Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Thinking, People, Negative

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• Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Emotional, Psychics

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

  Ramakrishna

  Animal, Wicked, Faces

  "Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings". Edited by Friedrich Max Müller, 1898.

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• You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

  Earl Nightingale

  Teamwork, Book, Two

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• After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trying, Done, Way

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• If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Angel, Privilege, Ifs

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• It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Greed, Consciousness, Consumerism

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• Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Heart, People

  Joel Osteen (2007). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.

  David B. Haight

  People, Good People, Good Thoughts

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• If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Wish, Esteem

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• Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

  Jane Addams

  Serenity, Age, Dignity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

  Andrej Pejic

  Beautiful, People, Being Different

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• No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Feelings, Mediocrity

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• Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

  Minnie Pearl

  Jesus, Laughter, Children

  Minnie Pearl, Joan Dew (1981). “Minnie Pearl: An Autobiography”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.

  Rand Paul

  People, Abhorrent, Groups

  "Rand Paul on Civil Rights: Private Restaurants Wouldn’t Have To Serve Martin Luther King" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

  John Angell James

  Inspire, Example, Holiness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 314, 1895.

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• President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Enemy

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• If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs.  If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Friendship, Eagles

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You are the average of your five closest associates.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Average, Five

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

  Vince Lombardi

  Loyalty, Teamwork, Player

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• A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say it is because he and his friend share similar attitudes. But if you actually quiz the two of them on their attitudes, you’ll find out that what they actually share is similar activities. We’re friends with the people we do things with, as much as we are with the people we resemble. We don’t seek out friends, in other words. We associate with the people who occupy the same small, physical spaces that we do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Attitude, Utah, Two

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• Your associates can be priceless.

  Napoleon Hill

  Priceless

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “Think and Grow Rich!”, p.74, Jaico Publishing House

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