A Quote by Booker T. Washington

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington

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Alone Good Associate Bad Bad Company Better Company Good Quality People Quality Than Yourself

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Booker T. Washington
American - Educator
April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

Muhammad

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

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

Umar

If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

George Washington

Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

Warren Buffett

As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.

J. J. Watt

Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

Nouman Ali Khan

Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have a good time, what they prefer. I associate this with young people. But many times I think this infantile quality is much better than the false, incomplete concept of adulthood.

Sergio Leone

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

Orson Scott Card

Always surround yourself with people who are better than you. If you're hanging around bad people, they're going to start bringing you down . . . But, if you surround yourself with good people, they're going to be pulling you up.