Top 100 Surround Quotes
#1. It's the choices you make that construct your future. You can choose to become a victim or you can choose to make decisions that empower you. Surround yourself with people who support your vision so you can keep your focus, and your energy!
Rashmi Bansal
#2. You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go those who keep weighing you down.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#3. Surround yourself with people that you know will take care of you. It's not so much a mistake advice - it's just advice advice.
Hannah Hart
#4. I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.
Blake Mycoskie
#5. When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.
Philip Ridley
#6. Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.
Kellie Pickler
#7. You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
Stacy London
#8. When you surround yourself with positive people who are making a difference in the world, you start to believe anything is possible.
Steven Aitchison
#9. I'd rather be the bloke laughing at other people. I don't need to make people laugh. I surround myself with funny people. I laugh all the time.
Jennifer Garner
#10. The next two sources of influence that routinely act on you are equally easy to spot. The people who surround you both motivate and enable your habits.
Kerry Patterson
#11. I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.
Shailene Woodley
#12. How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
Tamra Davis
#13. Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.
George Steinbrenner
#14. With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.
Bill Dedman
#15. Thinking is contagious ... so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully!
Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people's thinking!
Jennifer O'Neill
#16. Surround yourself with people who are positive and who guard against negative talk.
Alan E. Nelson
#17. I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans ... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.
Timbaland
#18. All we are is who we surround ourselves with and let into our hearts.
Nancy S. Thompson
#19. It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.
Katie Aselton
#20. Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
#22. I try my best to surround myself with people who're smarter than I'm; individuals who add values; who stretch me; optimistic & full of light
Assegid Habtewold
#23. 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, be able to evade them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.
Sun Tzu
#24. Greater is He that is in you than anything that surrounds you.
Christine Caine
#25. There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind's home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you're so desperate to be rid of them that you'll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.
Kevin Hearne
#26. To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!
Sasha Azevedo
#27. A lot of people worry about
the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
I feel it's more a matter
of people treating the things that surround them
with respect.
Albert Hadley
#28. The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. Your environment will become you. Surround yourself with people who have the same dream as you, who have accomplished what you want & more.
Keshia Chante
#30. If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus.
Steve Maraboli
#31. By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
Jonathan Lethem
#32. Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship and people just surround you and say, "We will help you, that you're not alone, that we've been through it before, and you will get through it," just gives you such great hope.
Michael Botticelli
#33. You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger!
Shannon MacMillan
#34. If you surround yourself with flowers of love, peace, and kindness, you will always find yourself in a garden of joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#35. I've learned through the years that it's not where you live, it's the people who surround you that make you feel at home.
J.B. McGee
#37. Instead of searching for what you want externally, concentrate on developing mental pictures of your desires. Surround these images with feelings of security, gratitude, and faith; and know that what you've been looking for is on its way to you right now.
Doreen Virtue
#38. In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.
Peter Brook
#39. Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and insurance claim forms, looking up and saying, 'I cannot go yet, God, I haven't done the paperwork.
Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
#40. Don't fall in trap of mediocrity and loose thinking. Surround yourself with intellectual people and thinkers. Be an awesome version of yourself day after day!!
Reshma Wable
#41. For they are rebellious against You. But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, You surround him with favor as with a shield. (Psalm 5)
Charles R. Swindoll
#42. It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.
Reba McEntire
#43. We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.
Tony Robbins
#44. I was born in the night of the second and third
Of January, ninety-something-or-other,
An unreliable year, and the centuries
Surround me with fire.
Osip Mandelstam
#45. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.
Jake M. Johnson
#46. There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Marcus Garvey
#47. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. [On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.
Josephine De Beauharnais
#49. The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit.
Wayne Gretzky
#50. I surround myself with bizarre people. They're more fun to write about.
Jenny Mollen
#51. I worship nature. The moon and the tides. The sun and the stars. The energies that surround us and dwell within us. The esoteric knowledge of our natural world and its flora and fauna.
Dacha Avelin
#52. Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.
Tony Robbins
#53. If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS
Kanye West
#54. As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.
Hideo Kojima
#55. Be kind today ... to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.
Ian Lawton
#56. God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.
TobyMac
#57. I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.
Ryan Lochte
#58. Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.
Torrey DeVitto
#59. It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.
Tim Gunn
#60. I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
Alan Ball
#61. The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
Aaron Belz
#62. In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka.
Patricia Highsmith
#63. Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.
Ted Lowe
#64. That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
Joe Rogan
#65. We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
Max DePree
#66. I said, life will not pass her by. Strange and exciting events will surround her. You've only got to look at her to know it.
Agatha Christie
#67. The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Dan Buettner
#68. An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
#69. A brane is a distinct region of spacetime that extends through only a (possibly multidimensional) slice of space. The word "membrane" motivated the choice of the word "brane" because membranes, like branes, are layers that either surround or run through a substance.
Lisa Randall
#70. She's got a way about her,
And everywhere she goes,
a million dreams of love surround her,
everywhere.
Billy Joel
#71. He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves,our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.
Dean Koontz
#72. There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.
Diana Gabaldon
#73. A city sparkles in the night
How can it glow so bright?
The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent light
Designer skyline in my head
Abstract and still well-read
You went from numbered lines to buildings overhead
Owl City
#74. The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.
Isaac Asimov
#75. Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.
Jim Elliot
#76. If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. You smell like a fresh flower and surround me like spring air.
Debasish Mridha
#78. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Sun Tzu
#79. In all aspects of life, it's always much funner when you surround yourself with people you enjoy being around.
Rob Dyrdek
#80. The people that surround us mirror who we are.
Rob Martin
#81. They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.
Michael Crichton
#82. This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.
Robbie Myers
#83. So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#84. I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I've got to be coached by the best.
Aeriel Miranda
#85. Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
Isadora Duncan
#86. And I have the others in me. Even when I'm far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I'm all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
Fernando Pessoa
#87. We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.
Joyce Meyer
#88. You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.
Wallace D. Wattles
#89. A good way to never run out of ideas? Surround yourself with interesting people, then think about how you can make them into characters.
B.A. Gabrielle
#90. There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.
Po Bronson
#91. If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs which Christianity fostered still underpin civil society in Europe, the institutions that surround us.
Larry Siedentop
#93. The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow.
Sarah Shahi
#96. Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.
Lindsay Lohan
#97. It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.
Sara Gruen
#98. As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.
Alfonso Cuaron
#99. I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.
Mila Kunis
#100. The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Robert Smithson
