Sean Covey Quotes

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.

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.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.

Better be alone than in bad company.

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

If anyone is ever rude to you, then there's no need to hang out with them! Just find the people that make you feel good.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

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

Bad company ruins good morals.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

Personally, when I'm picking friends, I like the ones who don't make me cry myself to sleep.

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

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

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.

I've realized that when I've done things that I actually regret, it's been the people that I've been around that have either not stopped me or have influenced me in that direction. So I think it's really just truly evaluating your friendships. If you're around people who are negative and are just sycophants... and steal your light, then that's a bad person, and you need to truly cut them out. It's hard to cut them out but you will feel so much better after.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

Some of my best friends are like, "I love that you are just the biggest pussy on the planet." And I have no problem with it at all, I love it. But it took a long time to understand that that's a part of my tapestry.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.