These surround quotes will inspire you. Surround to enclose on all sides or a thing that forms a border or edging around an object.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging surround quotes, surround sayings, and surround proverbs.
Best Surround Quotes
- “Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” ~ John Wooden
- “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
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“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “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
- “To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams… This is success!” ~ Sasha Azevedo
- “Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.” ~ Heidi Klum
- “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.” ~ Paula Abdul
- “Surround yourself with positive people.” ~ Melanie
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“Surround yourself with people who are doers!” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero’s journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.” ~ Kristin Armstrong , Positive surround quotes
- “Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.” ~ Queen Latifah
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“Surround yourself with good people. Whether they’re the best or not, people are capable of learning if they’ve got good hearts and they’re good souls.” ~ Kid Rock
- “Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.” ~ Derek Jeter
- “Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world – you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.” ~ Lucy Hale
- “Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.” ~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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“As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.” ~ Maggie Stiefvater
- “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
- “When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.” ~ Steven Spielberg
- “Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth.” ~ Lucy Hale
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“Surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself!” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “Surround yourself with optimistic people.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.” ~ Mick Ebeling
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“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.” ~ Colin Powell
- “Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.” ~ Michael Bloomberg
- “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
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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” ~ William Gibson
- “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.” ~ Karl Marx
- “What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name – and moving on.” ~ Emile M. Cioran
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“The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. Something we can no longer imagine an outside of.” ~ Tom Burr
- “You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.” ~ Victor Levin
- “There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.” ~ Howard W. Hunter , Surround quotes greatness
- “All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress” ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
- “We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.” ~ David Lange
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“The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture – and maybe in our churches – turn the other way?…For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.” ~ David Platt
- “It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is held together by a deeper unity.” ~ Paul Feyerabend
- “I would… establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.” ~ Justus von Liebig
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“I have never seen a game’s graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.” ~ Don Bluth
- “The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of others’ actions. It is like a set of invisible mirrors that surround individuals, households or firms, reflecting back on them the consequences of their acts. The industrious will reap the benefits of their industry; the frugal the consequences of their frugality; the improvident and the profligate likewise. They receive their due, which is to say they experience justice as a matter of routine.” ~ Tom Bethell
- “If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man’s life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.” ~ B. H. Liddell Hart
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“You never know really what anyone thinks about you – that’s why all my closest friends are ones I’ve had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.” ~ Dominic Cooper
- “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
- “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
- “The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you’re a moron, you’re going to get a really strong photograph.” ~ Andy Summers
- “My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“It’s important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long as your friends surround you with love, loyalty, respect and positivity.” ~ Demi Lovato
- “Having the right perspective is tough when you’re alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.” ~ Clifton Anderson
- “The goal is just to try to get better and better, and the only way that makes sense to do that is to work with the best people. Surround yourself with the best artists and learn from them, and try to sink your teeth into the best material possible.” ~ Jon Bernthal
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“All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.” ~ Lisa Randall
- “In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point.” ~ Dan Barber
- “There’s always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.” ~ T Bone Burnett
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“Don’t surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You’ve got 75 year-old guys on the road. That’s what I was put here to do, y’know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. ‘Cause I’m in it for the long run.” ~ Neil Young
- “There are many readers of the book, who don’t know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one author. It doesn’t matter, if you can’t make the reader dive into the story and surround him with that environment and those characters. That’s an experience that lasts longer than figuring out who did what. I think that’s what makes our working relationship better, it helps us to make a book that feels unique and not like different voices.” ~ Gabriel Ba
- “If you surround yourself with talented people and you give them the freedom to achieve, then the work will never fail.” ~ Rankin
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“Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with ‘The Jazz Singer’ or the first colour or surround sound – it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.” ~ John Lasseter
- “Winners surround themselves with other winners. A winner knows he’s a winner. He doesn’t need second-raters and yes-men around to feed his ego. He knows he’ll win more, and go further, with associates who not only can keep up with him but who also are capable of teaching him something.” ~ Harvey Mackay
- “I don’t want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I’ve got it cracked, but it was just all in all a joyous experience. To me, the key to directing, to be honest, is just surround yourself with brilliant people and let them do their thing” ~ Dan Mazer
