Quotes About Influence

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

Surround yourself with people who move you, motivate you and mobilize you.

A man becomes like those whose society he loves.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

Tell me whom you frequent and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Keep good men company and you shall be of their number.

A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

Iron sharpeneth iron so a man sharp-eneth the countenance of his friend.

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.