Ryan Cabrera Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

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

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

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

Bad company ruins good morals.

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

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.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

Bad company corrupts good character.

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.

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.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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

When you're growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction.

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

When you get a bit older, life can start kicking and it was mainly the area I grew up in that began to lead me astray. I went down the wrong paths to some degree.

When we prolong negative behavior - the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some way - we are leading a changeless life in the most hazardous manner. We are willfully choosing to be miserable and making others miserable, too.

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