Top 100 Friends Choose Quotes
#1. 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
#2. moment that the parents of one's friends choose to die or go to
Julian Fellowes
#3. 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."
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John Bunyan
#5. You will meet a lot of people in your life; some laugh with you, others will laugh at you; some will love to clean your mess, others will love to mess you up! Love all, but choose carefully the one who stays close to you forever!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. 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
#7. Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life.
Bryant McGill
#8. How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
Samuel Johnson
#9. The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.
Rumer Godden
#10. You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.
Michael Bassey
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.
Mia Sheridan
#15. Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
Haruki Murakami
#16. When we vote, when we talk to our friends about what matters to us, when we choose whose lives we pay attention to [in medicine], we are deciding what our future is going to look like.
John Green
#17. I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.
Holliday Grainger
#18. 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
#19. We all have people in our lives we don't really choose as friends but with whom we're, well, lumbered, I suppose. Heart-sink friends.
Alexander McCall Smith
#20. Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.
Isocrates
#21. 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
#22. My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
Chuck Palahniuk
#23. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors, Magnus said cheerfully.
Cassandra Clare
#29. 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
#30. Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.
Thomas S. Monson
#31. 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
#32. When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
#33. It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck
Guy Gavriel Kay
#34. I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.
Mark Skousen
#35. Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#36. 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
#37. Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice
Howell James
#38. 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
#39. Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
Jacques Delille
#40. 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
#41. How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.
Sara Nelson
#42. 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
#43. You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#44. Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#45. In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief ... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
Florence Nightingale
#50. Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold ... Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.
Laurence Steinberg
#51. I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.
Jim Butcher
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
Aesop
#55. 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
#56. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yasser Arafat
#57. Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Thomas S. Monson
#59. We choose our friends; our enemies choose us.
Marty Rubin
#60. I always love to support my friends and how they choose to express themselves creatively.
Rayvon Owen
#61. 26The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Richard G. Lee
#62. The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Dan Buettner
#63. We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.
Michelle Moran
#64. 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
#65. 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
#67. Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.
Jim George
#68. You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#69. Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks
#70. 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
#71. Well, if I cannot be sensible and popular at the same time, then I will always choose the virtue rather than the friends.
Thomas Cullinan
#72. Choose your friends carefully but don't worry about your enemies, they will choose you
Carl Henegan
#73. In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters' they are given to us, whether in family or in community." Jean
Jean Vanier
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
Larisa Oleynik
#78. I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.
Russell M. Nelson
#79. We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.
Dominick Dunne
#80. God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
Addison Mizner
#81. Which would you choose if you could:
pleasure for yourself despite your friends
or a share in their grief?
Sophocles
#82. Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.
Richard Blackaby
#83. I carefully choose people in my life and if you are not happy with it, then its your call to be angry, broken, disappointed and lose sleep over my choice, judgement & decision ... no apologies.
Uzoma Nnadi
#84. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
Edna Buchanan
#85. I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.
Joan Lunden
#86. 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
#87. Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
Aristotle.
#88. Choose friends who are positive and loving.
Bella Sara
#89. You can choose your friends but not your friendships.
Sarah Manguso
#90. 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
#92. I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
Wallace Shawn
#93. 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
#94. If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your friends.
CrimethInc.
#95. I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
Samuel L. Jackson
#96. Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
Francois Fenelon
#97. Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
