Surrounded By People Quotes

#1. If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

Chris Prentiss

#2. I didn't notice it in those early years - I thought I was surrounded by people who wished me nothing but good. I heard the whispers and shrugged off the notoriety, the half-hidden glances and smirks. I

Kelly Gardiner

#3. I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone.

Laura Regan

#4. I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

Emilia Fox

#5. In the bustling of the cities, forever surrounded by people and their chatter, we stand alone; an island of humanity. Build your raft, that you may drift into the heart and make real contact.

Martin Cosgrove

#6. When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.

Carolyn Murphy

#7. One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

Wayne Knight

#8. When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

Emily Levine

#9. You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

Sophia Loren

#10. Even when he was in a crowd, surrounded by people, he was alone.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Bernie Siegel

#12. I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. Age isn't as important so long as you are surrounded by people you love, doing things you passionately believe in.

Richard Branson

#14. You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.

Ladyhawke

#15. Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people.

Samantha Young

#16. Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

Robin Williams

#17. I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

Junot Diaz

#18. Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

Brian Tracy

#19. They were surrounded by people, seemingly enjoying the company, but they kept stealing glances at each other as if everything else were just a distraction. It

Sonali Dev

#20. I have always tried to drive a car that was better than me, and race against people who were better than me. If you are surrounded by people who are as good as you, or not as good, how are you going to learn?

Joey Logano

#21. I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.

Casey Neistat

#22. So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

Gayle Forman

#23. Dearest Virgin Scribe, without his father, he was so alone, even as he was surrounded by people who served him.

J.R. Ward

#24. You're surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can't stand up under it. In the sleep period, you're free.

Isaac Asimov

#25. I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve out time to walk my dog alone so I can organize my thoughts.

Amanda Schull

#26. I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone.

Dana Gould

#27. You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.

Charlie Jane Anders

#28. Life is much more enjoyable when you're surrounded by people who just accept you for you.

Priscilla Glenn

#29. I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

Jonathan Franzen

#30. You need to be surrounded by people whose voices echo your soul voice.

Robin Roberts

#31. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.

Melinda Salisbury

#32. Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

Margaret Heffernan

#33. I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.

Evangeline Lilly

#34. I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

Dick York

#35. Loneliness doesn't come from being alone, but from being surrounded by people who can't understand you. A deep feeling of isolation comes when you realize that even the person standing right next to you is unreachable.

Anonymous

#36. The one thing I'd learned was that having someone with you all the time did not take away the loneliness. You could be surrounded by people and be lonely. Something was missing. I could almost pinpoint it, but right when it was within my grasp I forgot; it just slipped away.

Abbi Glines

#37. Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Mignon McLaughlin

#38. It's a little bit devastating being surrounded by people who can do what you can't anymore. People who create. People whose souls don't live in their bodies anymore because they've leached so much of themselves into their work.

Katja Millay

#39. All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was happenstance about them - not their true selves.

Sigrid Undset

#40. That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

Lisa Bonet

#41. In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

Billy Corgan

#42. To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

Michael Korda

#43. An empty city was like an empty library or school, it made you feel as if the entire thing was built just for you and gave familiar landmarks an individualism that they usually lacked when surrounded by people.

Adrianne Brooks

#44. These lives we lived were a gift and precious and so short. I wanted to spend my time authentically, surrounded by people I truly loved.

Rachel Higginson

#45. Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.

Ruth Rendell

#46. I am so alone, all the time, even when I'm surrounded by people. Sometimes I get really tired of the walls, and I wish I had the strength to just go at them with a sledgehammer.

Karole Cozzo

#47. Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

Justin Timberlake

#48. If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.

Vironika Tugaleva

#49. When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.

John Cena

#50. He had to be nice to me at the moment because he had to be surrounded by people. This was because boys like him were, essentially, pasta. Everyone thought they loved him because they had never been forced to experience the true blandness of him on his own.

Matthew Crow

#51. Never have public feuds with anyone who's surrounded by people who carry guns.

Moby

#52. Everyone feels like they would love to be a really cool bartender in a really cool bar, but you're still surrounded by people who want to destroy themselves with alcohol. When you look at it that way, it's not that much fun.

John Hodgman

#53. He was surrounded by people who loved him, yet he had never felt lonelier.

Thea Harrison

#54. At least on the Ketty Jay he was surrounded by people who asked no questions, people untrained in the aristocratic arts of vicious wit and backstabbing. He rather liked that about them, actually.

Chris Wooding

#55. I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.

Gayle Forman

#56. In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

Bae Doona

#57. As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

Joyce Carol Oates

#58. I think fan conventions are the epitome of what is fantastic about the internet. And probably why they've become so much more popular in the last several years. You're never weird when you're surrounded by people who are weird like you, right?

Felicia Day

#59. Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

Kiana Tom

#60. Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Andy Stanley

#61. No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

Jan Hellriegel

#62. Growing up, I started to realize I was surrounded by people who were passionately alive. Seventh Street felt raw, but I found it incredibly theatrical.

Josh Pais

#63. And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a tiny island. I was surrounded by people I loved, and I felt happy and miserable at the same time. I thought of what a mess everything had been, but that it wouldn't always be this way.

Hanif Kureishi

#64. I should be arguing vehemently with doctors, demanding results, I should be surrounded by people who are bleeding and screaming and shocking one another with defibrillators.

Dan Chaon

#65. We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#66. I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.

Christopher Pike

#67. Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

David Brinkley

#68. I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

Paulo Costanzo

#69. There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#70. There are times when you long for answers and you become painfully aware that you are surrounded by people who may not even comprehend your questions

Srividya Srinivasan

#71. I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.

Sara Quin

#72. You should be living your life surrounded by people who are like-minded, service-oriented, and grateful, people who are trying to accomplish things, and who bring something to the table.

Steve Harvey

#73. If you take that risk, if you take that chance, if you tell the truest, hardest, deepest story you have within you, you're not going to step into the light and find that you're there alone. That you're going to be surrounded by people who are there with you.

Cheryl Strayed

#74. You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me.

Kellie Elmore

#75. Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love ... it's: Wow, life is good.

Alicia Keys

#76. This had to be Hell.Well, my
Hell, and funnily enough, my Hell was in a church, surrounded by people I - either do
or did - love.

Elizabeth Morgan

#77. My whole life has been a very communal experience; growing up in a house full of happy hippies, having dinner parties three days a week, and going to Christiania, I was constantly surrounded by people celebrating community. If you look at the films I've done, they all share that theme.

Thomas Vinterberg

#78. I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

Pearl Cleage

#79. I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

Doug Liman

#80. Objectively, she knew she was in better shape than most, but that was the thing about New York: no matter how much money you had, you were surrounded by people who had so much more.

Laura Hemphill

#81. A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.

Graham Moore

#82. He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you.

Andrew Ashling

#83. I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

Dan Rosensweig

#84. The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

Agnes Obel

#85. Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

Christie Hefner

#86. I'm surrounded by people here, but I'm completely alone

Sara Wolf

#87. I'd put myself into this situation - surrounded by people, looking like hell, and so obviously unhappy that I was practically waving a pity me banner, but still not willing to talk to anyone.

Santino Hassell

#88. I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

John Amaechi

#89. All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

Glenn T. Seaborg

#90. I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

Douglas Booth

#91. I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

David Mumford

#92. I hope it affirms your desire for 'more God'- even if you are surrounded by people who feel they have 'enough God'.

Francis Chan

#93. When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.

Cara Delevingne

#94. The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

Seth Godin

#95. Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.

Rupert Grint

#96. I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'

James Altucher

#97. School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

Dave Kellett

#98. We were surrounded by people on the platform, but we were entirely alone.

Paula McLain

#99. Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy for others.

Tim Crawshaw

#100. I've had a lot of time to think and even though the silence is new, the loneliness isn't. How is it possible to have been surrounded by people and never feel complete?

Katie McGarry