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 truly 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 who don't help you climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream.
Those who don't increase you will eventually decrease you. Don’t stay around people who only tolerate you but don’t celebrate 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.
Never forget, however that God may put you into someone’s life to help (not force) them to soar.
"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, 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.
"In Prosperity Our Friends Know Us. In Adversity We Know Our friends."
"Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude"...
That’s my heart right there, Trey’ loves his little sister. Seventeen years ago, she was born, but that’s not where the story really is told. It lies more with my mom, love my MOM! 
The story of Jennifer’s birth is probably one of the weirdest things I have ever had the honor to witness. I can’t give the whole story, it would take my mom to do that, but here’s the Cliff’s Notes version. There’s a woman who wants a baby girl. This woman, names this baby girl Jennifer before conception. The next series of events take place over a 7 year span; Husband doesn’t want child, Husband wants child, several doctors say woman has zero chance of having a baby, woman prays, woman tells people I’m having a baby, people at first say ok, years past, no baby, doctors still say no chance, woman has surgeries, woman needs hysterectomy, doctor has approval for hysterectomy, makes the cut, can’t follow through with procedure, doesn’t know why, time keeps moving, woman getting older, woman still saying I’m having a baby named Jennifer, people laugh, woman buys dress for invisible baby, woman makes nursery for invisible baby, people think woman has lost mind, woman still believes she will have baby, woman believes that God told her “You will have a seed and it will serve me”, woman keeps telling people she is having a baby girl, woman nears 39, and becomes pregnant, woman insist she will have a baby girl, many ask woman about the chance of having a boy, woman says no, 7 years later on a June morning woman has baby girl. My mom believed despite what she was told, what her body was doing, what statistics said, she would have a baby girl. My mom prayed and believed despite all the laughs and ridicule of friends and family (even her son). My parents had the opportunity to adopt or go other routes, but she chose to stick with God. 7 years…….Man That’s A Long Time!!! 17 years later, 
I’m glad she did. Happy Birthday Jennifer, Be Blessed
