Companions Quotes

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

~ Dylan Thomas

Every one at some point felt discouraged, it was our faithful companions, who lifted our spirit to find hope again.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Better Associations:If you associate yourself with a change maker,Your life will by all means become better.You will wink at challenges and begin to think.In times of frustrations, you will not sink.If you miss the way to a great destination,Just look for those going to that direction.Mount the shoulders of a giant believerAnd you will become a great achiever.People around you determine your speed.They will influence the growth of your seed.People you are around will decide your strengthAnd also the figure of your success’ lengthI trust you want to become a better you.It matters, what your associates plan to do.It depends, where your companions want to go.It relies on what your friends believe and know.Quit friendships that build you nothingChoose friends who bring out of you somethingOne iron sharpens another ironGo along with great people and ride on.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers!

~ James Hauenstein

The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.

~ Elizabeth Alder

Two main categories of people are needed in your circle, those who give you the necessary support to accomplish your dreams and those who become beneficiaries of what you achieve.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Stay away from people who drive your emotions crazily. Find a better company!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely, they are aware of the consequences.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your relationships will either empower you to overcome obstacles, or put fears in you so you can run away from them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is no greater companion like books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open the door for you. You have the right to choose your friends, do it carefully!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your temperament can drive people away from you and then you live a regrettable life

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Desires may dry off, bodies may decay, friendship may vanish and positions may be dissolved. One thing will remain; the word of God! In the word is life!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections, be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers, you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere, people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Remember iron sharpens iron. People inspire people, therefore, always ensure that you read books that can easily guide you to discover strategies of making a good name.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never leave your life plan to be determined by people who are not going where you are going. For the sake of your dreams and also for the sake of the people God created to benefit from your God-give talents, stay away from toxic people. Mount the shoulder giants and see farther ahead!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Keep it calm and watch the company you keep. It's either a red card or a green card you are holding. One guides you to go on, and the other makes you give up on scoring your goals

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Keep negative people long meters away from you; their presence is a threat to your high self-esteem! Job, the man of God kept his wife afar before he could make it again!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

~ Rachel Cohn

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

~ Colette

All the best things in life are free: love, smiles, friends, family, pets & companions, thoughts, sunsets & sunrises and especially rainbows.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You will meet a lot of people in your life; some laugh with you, others will laugh at you; some will love to clean your mess, others will love to mess you up! Love all, but choose carefully the one who stays close to you forever!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be worried if you always flock in the company of people who peel off other people's skins with their teeth in their absence. A time will come when they'll try to pick a bite on you too!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One main reason why most dreamers cannot take their dreams off the ground is that they keep their ideas to themselves alone. The fact that you think you can make it alone is the first step to your failure!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.'Gabriel, will you you stay on with me?' she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon.'I will,' said Gabriel.And she smiled on him again.

~ Thomas Hardy

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all, you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient, don’t rush things!

~ Israelmore Ayivor