If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself. — Aesop
Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something. — Nouman Ali Khan
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. — George Washington
Tell me who you are with, and I'll tell you who you are — Spanish Proverbs
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are. — Esmeralda Santiago
Tell me who you are with and I will tell you who you are — Mexican Proverbs
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
Try to be in good company, even when you are alone. — Hungarian Proverbs
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. — Edwin Paxton Hood
When beginning your entrepreneurial journey, acknowledge that you become a product of the five people you spend the most time with. So choose your company wisely. — Lewis Howes
Short Company You Keep Quotes
Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott
Tell me who your friend is, I will tell you who you are. — Turkish Proverbs
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. — Euripides
Bad company ruins good morals. — Bible
Bad company ruins good morals. — Paul the Apostle
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are. — Proverbs
Tell me who your friend is, and I’ll tell you who you are. — Turkish Proverbs
Who you do business with is just as important as what you choose to do. — Naval Ravikant
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. — William Shakespeare
Company You Keep Image Quotes
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
You Are The Company You Keep Quotes
You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement. — Patrick Lencioni
This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know. — Shane Claiborne
The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you. — Holly Robinson Peete
My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow. — Howard Schultz
Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are. — Simon Sinek
In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short. — Fanny Burney
Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom. — Geneen Roth
Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life. — Helen Humphreys
Company We Keep Quotes
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. — Joan Didion
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death. — Thomas Bernhard
I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized. — Charles Schumer
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. — Tryon Edwards
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. — Alain de Botton
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. — Dave Barry
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words. — Chanakya
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. — Ted Turner
We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. — Kurt Vonnegut
My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better. — Chesley Sullenberger
A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses. — Colin Powell
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can — Louisa May Alcott
If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless. — R. D. Laing
Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile. — Carrie Fisher
Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me. — Gary Player
Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it. — Richard Thaler
I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage. — Geneen Roth
Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people. — Dada Vaswani
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself. — Chogyam Trungpa
When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep. — Masha Gessen
Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' — Michael Scheuer
... It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. — Oriah Dreamer
It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself. — Ibn Ata Allah
Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep. — Edwin Paxton Hood
I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life. — Jon Blais
The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it. — Bruce Campbell
I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep. — Kevin Hart
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. — Harold S. Geneen
Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving. — Angela Ahrendts
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. — Harold Geneen
When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen. — Geoff Dyer
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative. — Elon Musk
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. — George Herbert
Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you. — Spencer W. Kimball
The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down. — Aaron Carter
he card companies will often, as a courtesy, honor that credit card, but hit you with a penalty. And you keep swiping your card for $3 at Starbucks for your latté, and you're getting hit with a $25 penalty because it's over your credit limit. — Richard Thaler
A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod will appreciate in value while a new graphite rod will depreciate, but the best thing to do is turn around and say, ¨$9,000.00 for a car? I only paid $500.00 for mine. — John Gierach
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it. — Woodrow Wilson
Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place. — Paula Sharp
If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time. — Suze Orman
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. — Paxton Hood
Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded. — Joe Biden
In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple. — Mark Zuckerberg
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. — Paxton Hood
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