March
27, 2011
"The
less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any
time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An
important
attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative
thinking
and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will
change.
Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you
to stay
where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to
crawl.
Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that
don't
increase you will eventually decrease you."
Consider this...
"Never
receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems with
someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never
succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has a right
to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when
you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyone who's not going
anywhere.
With
some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it. Be careful
where
you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life. Wise is the
person
who fortifies his life with the right friendships. If you run with
wolves,
you will learn how to howl. But, if you associate with eagles, you
will
learn how to soar to great heights.
"A
mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of
friends he chooses."
The
simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you
closely
associate - for the good and the bad.
Note:
Be not mistaken. This is applicable to family as well as friends.
Yes...do
love, appreciate and be thankful for your family, for they will
always
be your family no matter what. Just know that they are human first
and
though they are family to you, they may be a friend to someone else and will
fit somewhere in the criteria above."
Colin Powell
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