Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

When I joined the Truckers, I was 21 and riding in the van with guys who were a generation older than me.

When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

Obviously, we live in a society where ageing is feared. But, to me, the alternative to getting old isn't that great. I've got friends much older than me and much younger, and I love that. It means you get to teach as well as learn.

The thing that I always try and say to young people starting out is your peer group is really the most important influence on your life because you are going to rise and fall together.

It's good to have some older friends: they have a lot more experience than us young ones.

You're never too young or too old to be a mentor.

I had a lot of older friends when I was a kid, from sort of all walks of life, and that's still the way it is.

As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.

If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.

I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.

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.

I think it's very important that I don't lose my circle of friends and the people who helped me get to where I am now.

I've really grown to find myself. I've started to learn the TV style, if you would. And with WOW, I've been able to meet some of the best people.

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

Where I came from had a lot of friends. A big social circle.

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

When I had older guys around me, I kind of leaned on them for advice and went through tough times.

I still can't believe I'm a professional wrestler in the first place. That hasn't sunk in yet. I'm sure I'll look back when I'm 50 or 60, if I make it that far, and think about everything that's happened.

I've always had a maturity level different than guys my age.

Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.

I don't think you can say that one aspect of my life built my perspective. It is a combination of my faith, my family, the people I've met at Connecticut and understanding that basketball is a platform for something bigger than the game, helping people, touching people's lives.

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my mid-twenties.