Cory Hardrict Quotes

No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be.

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.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

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.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up.

We become like the five people we spend most of our time with; Oh, we've got to be picky, and you might have to fire a few people who don't belong in that inner circle because they can't help you be your best and further your purpose.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.

You're only as good as the people who you surround yourself with.

Surround yourself with people who will make you better, and learn to listen.

I think it's good to surround yourself with good people.

The lads I played football with on the street when I was a kid in Cardiff were as good as me, and in many ways, my career is due to them.

I'm surrounded by good people, and I surround myself with good people.

Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift - yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.)

The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.