Top 100 Choose Friends Quotes
#1. Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks
#2. You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#3. The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Dan Buettner
#4. Choose friends who are positive and loving.
Bella Sara
#5. It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck
Guy Gavriel Kay
#6. Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.
David Sedaris
#7. I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
Ayn Rand
#8. AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for sharing your lives with me.....
Amelia Hutchins
#9. I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I'm really thinking is, If you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.
Nora Ephron
#10. I know for a fact that a lot of my Christian friends have thoughtful reasons for interpreting the Bible the way they do and that the phrase "pick and choose" sounds far too arbitrary to describe the attentiveness and concern with which they approach the text.
Rachel Held Evans
#11. There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren't bound to them by anything but love.
Sarah Manguso
#12. Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.
Jim George
#14. Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.
Debra Dean
#15. Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People who love books sooner or later dream of writing them. It's a natural response to stimuli.
Ellen Gilchrist
#16. We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.
Michelle Moran
#17. I always love to support my friends and how they choose to express themselves creatively.
Rayvon Owen
#19. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yasser Arafat
#20. Choose good friends. Friends help to determine your future. You will tend to be like them and to be found where they choose to go. Remember, the path we follow in this life leads to the path we follow in the next.
Thomas S. Monson
#21. If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
Aesop
#22. Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#23. If I could have one friend,
just one in all the world,
I know that I would not seek out
a boy or pretty girl.
The friend I'd dare to choose
to stand by me each day
would be a dragon fierce enough
to scare the world away.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
Olivia Newton-John
#25. When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.
Jean-Marc Vallee
#26. Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.
Javier Bardem
#27. Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
#28. Solitude, what a sad and beautiful thing it is! How beautiful when we choose it! How sad when it is forced upon us year after year! Some strong men are not lonely when they are alone, but I, who am weak, am lonely when I have no friends.
Emmanuel Bove
#30. Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can't make the decision for us ... we have to make our own choice.
Billy Graham
#31. If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
Larisa Oleynik
#32. It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted.
J.R. Rim
#33. I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.
Joan Lunden
#34. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
Edna Buchanan
#35. Which would you choose if you could:
pleasure for yourself despite your friends
or a share in their grief?
Sophocles
#36. We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.
Dominick Dunne
#38. The more it happens, the easier it is for others, although I do understand why some actors choose not to come out. I have several famous friends who are still in the closet.
Cheyenne Jackson
#39. She left me. All this time she was gone, I didn't know if she was dead or just didn't want me. But now it doesn't matter. I choose my new parents and I choose my friends. I choose the family I made. I choose me.
Madeleine Roux
#40. I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once.
Agatha Christie
#41. moment that the parents of one's friends choose to die or go to
Julian Fellowes
#42. It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace
the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#43. Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.
Isocrates
#44. So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed.
Euripides
#45. Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
Haruki Murakami
#46. Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.
Mia Sheridan
#47. We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
William Butler Yeats
#48. The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
Virat Kohli
#49. Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone
#50. How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
Samuel Johnson
#51. Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life.
Bryant McGill
#52. We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
Oswald Chambers
#53. I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that this man and his worldly friends think most worthy of our affections."
"Did
John Bunyan
#54. The last time I checked, the only difference between my gay friends and I is who we choose to love. I'm not sure how that warrants a loss of rights, but it needs to stop. What ever happened to liberty and justice for all?
Pink
#55. I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.
Selena Gomez
#56. You do have the idea of being 'just good friends?'"
He gave her a sideways look. "For so high and honorable an estate," Roshaun said, " 'just' seems a poor modifier to choose.
Diane Duane
#57. In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
#58. Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.
Lurlene McDaniel
#59. You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors, Magnus said cheerfully.
Cassandra Clare
#60. Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
Jacques Delille
#61. But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.
Helen Simonson
#62. Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice
Howell James
#63. I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.
Jeremy Northam
#64. Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#65. The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our
best friend's life. Friends choose certain friends because that's the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they're the
correct height, age, or have the right hair color
Cecelia Ahern
#66. Choose your friends because you feel most like yourself around them, because the jokes are easy and you feel like you're in your best outfit when you're with them, even though you're just in a t-shirt.
Caitlin Moran
#67. Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.
Thomas S. Monson
#68. I'm not going out with you."
"Come on, it can just be a friends thing. If we choose to get naked afterward, so be it.
Julie Johnson
#69. We are who we choose to be, so we cannot change our past nor predict our future, but we can live each day to the fullest by sharing love and laughter with friends and associates.
Irma Schettini Caiazzo
#70. Maybe friendship can't begin until someone chooses you. But ... that doesn't mean you don't get to make a choice too. You can't do that ... unless you know who they are. And they can't choose you ... until they know who you are.
Miyoshi Toumori
#71. What ideals, when followed, will bring to you those blessings you so much seek, even a quiet conscience, a peace-filled heart, a loving family, a contented home? May I suggest these three: Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.
Thomas S. Monson
#72. And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.
Patrick Ness
#74. Never make someone have to choose between your ways and the Lord's ways. And always make sure that you're making it easier to live God's commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends.
Robert D. Hales
#75. All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.
Dave Eggers
#76. Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with.
Bonnie St. John
#78. All too often, we make decisions from a place of pain, insecurity or fear and we let those negative thoughts guide our behavior, ruin opportunities and be the reason we choose poor friends and abusive partners.
Elona Washington
#79. Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely ... we all have a choice in life.
Mimi Jenkins
#80. Be mindful of your social environment. By nature, the group you hang-out with will develop a common behavior and mindset. This behavior usually gravitates towards the lowest common denominator. Choose your group wisely.
Steve Maraboli
#81. People think that once you're in movies your life changes in a crazy way. It really doesn't. If you choose to have it change in a crazy way, it will. I have my same groups of friends I was friends with in high school. We're all a bunch of really normal guys.
Jonah
#82. What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.
James Maslow
#84. Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from.
Chuck D
#85. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle.
#86. I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.
Heather Dubrow
#87. When they ask me the meaning of time
I am speechless
and I choose to be friends with minutes and seconds, as I know, they are more familiar about time
Ys Sroyer
#88. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
#89. Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose.
Jen Lancaster
#90. I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.
Fredrik Bajer
#91. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.
John Green
#92. You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.
Harper Lee
#93. I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.
Sharon Stone
#94. Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.
Ana Monnar
#95. Choose well the people around you, friends and everyone else around you. They can teach you lesson, some people give it like this other give it by the hard way.
Deyth Banger
#96. Maybe it's about opening up your definition of family to include friends, too. Because friends are the family you choose.
Kim Holden
#97. It's the gap in the teeth. My friends say I look like Shrek - some of my friends - and you can't choose your friends, so what can I say?
Louis Oosthuizen
#98. Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen Hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#99. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
#100. friends are the family you choose.
Kim Holden
