Negative Influences Quotes

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.

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.

When you meet a lot of people and you date somebody, or you're just in a relationship with friends, lovers, business, or whatever it may be, there are people that are just toxic to you, and you don't even know it yourself.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual — the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them — they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.

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.

The NBA makes you become a bigger version of what you already were. If you were somebody who was not so nice and you came into a lot of money and fame, then you're probably going to abuse that in the wrong way. But if you come into those things and you were doing the right things, then chances are you're going to do more of the right things.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

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

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.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.

I have no interest in bantering back and forth with someone who is the exact person that I am trying not to become, and stay away from, by degrading women, by going after my family, in a manner that is intended to harm.

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.