Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

Who are your friends and supporters and how do they influence you? That's part of public concern about character.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

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

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, good family. I think I've got my head screwed on.

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man – public opinion.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

There's no crime in being a poor role model.

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.

I started training with school friends and, one by one, they all dropped out. When we became teenagers, it seemed more exciting to go shopping at weekends. My mum told me not to worry about what my friends were doing and to stick at it.