Surround Quotes

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. (Oprah Winfrey)
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. View quote
Colin Powell
Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. View quote
Robert Smithson
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. View quote
Cass Sunstein
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. View quote
Bell hooks
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. View quote
John Wooden
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits. (Dan Buettner)
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. View quote
Paula Abdul
People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times. View quote
Rohit Sharma
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes relentlessly persecute them, and treat their teachings with malicious hostility, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaign of lies and slanders. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to surround their names with a certain halo for the "consolation" of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping them, while at the same time emasculating the revolutionary doctrine of its content, vulgarizing it and blunting its revolutionary edge.' View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. View quote
James Fenimore Cooper
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music. View quote
Pete Seeger
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. (Barbara Kruger)
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. View quote
Augustine Birrell
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency. View quote
Ted Nugent
It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them. View quote
Sun Tzu
Thoughts are saturated with energies that can intrude immediately or hover around you until they have an opportunity to take advantage of you. Thought forms that surround you at a particular moment may wait until a later time to affect you. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami