It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one…

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who…

— William Feather

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…

— Elliott Colla

Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of…

— Frederick Lenz

No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of…

— Isaac Barrow

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.…

— Colin Powell

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy…

— Napoleon Hill

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

— Tim O'Reilly

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked…

— Colin Meloy

I don't wear makeup. I don't wash my hair every day. It's not something that I associate with myself.

— Mila Kunis

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often…

— Gunther Schuller

A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

— Archibald Cox

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his…

— Andrew Dickson White