Les Brown Quotes

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off!

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

The fact is, when you are young, if you are mingling with wrong people, you tend to be misguided. You tend to be brainwashed easily.

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

Bad company ruins good morals.

If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

I watch the people I hang around, 'cause if you hangin' with people who still got their foot in the street, that really involves you as well. It's definitely all about the company I keep. If you don't want anything to do with the streets or whatever, but you got everybody around you in the street, you just as much a part of it as they are. A lot of times it's very hard; you gotta straight cut off people, you know what I mean? If it ain't good for you, you just gotta turn your back to it.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.