Quotes About Choosing Your Friends

#1. Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.

Robin Jones Gunn

#2. One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies ... Be smart choosing your friends.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#3. Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.

Dana Perino

#4. It's easy to blame traffic jam
when you're late and in a hurry.

Toba Beta

#5. One in two believe they know best when it comes to choosing their friends' partners, but wouldn't dream of letting their friends select a partner for them.

Talli Roland

#6. What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I'd better figure out what I rubbing up against.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the company we keep.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.

Sherwood Anderson

#9. When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

John Muir

#12. All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

Jonas Armstrong

#13. Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts.

Alistair Begg

#14. He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and hunched over. If that's what God does to you you should pick your friends more carefully.

Ian McDonald

#15. When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity.

Charles F. Glassman

#16. There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

Andrew Bird

#17. Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle.

Stephen Smoke

#18. Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.

Joyce Rachelle

#19. For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B

Tom Morello

#20. 'First Light' has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends.

Richard Preston

#21. I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.

Emma Watson

#22. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

Edna Buchanan

#23. 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

#24. Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

Heather Brewer

#25. It's really important that we have an ecosystem where small innovative entrepreneurs can develop new products and access consumers and have a chance to succeed.

Julius Genachowski

#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. 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

#28. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

J.I. Packer

#29. We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

Anthony Jeselnik

#31. 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