Curate Your Inner Circle Quotes
You become the average of the people you keep closest. Choose a circle that raises your standards and half your growth is already handled. This Influence path holds history's wisest quotes on choosing who gets access to you. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Don't you dare for one more second surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
“Your network is your net worth.”
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”
“Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people - or find a different room”
“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
“Don't try to do everything by yourself, but try to connect with people and resources. Having that discipline and perseverance is really important.”
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.”
“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck. If you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”
“Friendship equals proximity plus frequency plus duration plus intensity.”
“Surround yourself with people who remind you more of your future than your past.”
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
“It's always good to work with people who make you feel insecure about yourself. That way, you will constantly keep pushing your limits.”
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.”
“If the people in your circle aren't contributing to your growth, then you're not in a circle, you're in a cage.”
“Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.”
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
“The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.”
“Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things.”
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
“An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”
“It's the friends that you can call up at 4:00 am that matter.”
“Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful”
“One tree does not make a forest.”
“The best thing you will ever do for yourself is to say goodbye to people who make you less than you could be.”
“Seek out people who challenge you, not those who comfort you.”
“Do not expect positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.”
“He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”
“It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction”
“I try to seek out and surround myself with people who are as passionate about what they do as I am”
“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.”
“Your team must be the size of your dream.”
“I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.”
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself.”
“Surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self.”
“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood.”
“Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
“Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.”
“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
“We ought neither to fasten our ship to one small anchor nor our life to a single hope.”
“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you're at all unsure of what you're looking for.”
“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.”
“The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.”
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
“When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.”
“Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.”
“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is Where am I going? and the second is Who will go with me? If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”
“Our chief want in life, is someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him, we are easily great.”
“Sometimes you have to give up on people, not because you don't care, but because they don't.”
“Poverty isn't only a lack of financial resources; it is isolation from the kind of people who could help you make more of yourself.”
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
“Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future.”
“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
“It's better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
“Surround yourself with people who challenge you to be better”
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
