Supportive Network Quotes

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

I sustain myself with the love of family.

The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.

Being a female in music I just, I want everybody to, all the women to come in, and we huddle up and we work together and we help each other.

Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

My core group of friends are all from when I was a kid.

Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!

Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.

Salman Khan is doing really well in his career. I know him since the time he was growing up.

I grew up in a really small town. I had a great friend group and an amazing community of people who were supporting and loving and moving out to L.A. it was really hard to find that. Especially just starting off my teen years.

I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

Growing up in the industry, sometimes you can feel as if you're not having a normal childhood, but I feel like my parents involved me with a lot of people who made things as 'okay' as they possibly could.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.

Everyone around me, they are very supportive of my adventures.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

I'm a lucky, lucky man. I mean, the people I surround myself with are so inspiration. They're so motivational and they're so dynamic and positive. You really can't stop that positive force when everything and everyone around you is so positive.

Are the people in your life inspiring you or tiring you?

God has already lined up the right people for you, people that will inspire you, challenge you and motivate you. If you’ll let go of the wrong people, then the right people will show up.

Your mates are the people who have been around 10 years or more.

I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again.

I've always been surrounded by good people who rein me back in.