Surroundings Quotes

• 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

  Positive, Jealousy, Thinking

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• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Karma, Attitude

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• We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

  Amber Valletta

  Products

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• If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Care, Ifs

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• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Character, Careers

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.128

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• I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

  Theophilus London

  Believe, Atmosphere, Mind

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• You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Vibes

  "The World’s Most Beautiful College Dorms" by Claire Cottrell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Struggle, Achievement

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

  Jack Nicholson

  Departed, Want, Environment

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• Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

  Conor McGregor

  Grateful, Mma, Appreciate

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• I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

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• Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hygiene, House, Healthy

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• Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Leadership, Looks, Levels

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• It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

  Marilu Henner

  Important, Needs, Suits

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• People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

  Tony Hiss

  Journey, Impact, Self

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• Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Hurt, Causes

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.64, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Peace, Men, Shapes

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?

  Christiane Northrup

  Home, Reflection, Self

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• See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Weather, People

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.82, New World Library

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• The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Giving, Soul

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

  River Phoenix

  Quality, Chameleon

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

  William James

  Love, Life, Gratitude

  "How About a Little Hope?" by Litsa Dremousis, www.esquire.com. July 30, 2007.

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• The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

  William James

  Soul, Stronger, Lovely Life

  "How About a Little Hope?" by Litsa Dremousis, www.esquire.com. July 30, 2007.

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• A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

  Ivor Novello

  Home, Giving, Cinema

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