Quotes About You Are Who Your Friends Are

#1. Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

Tori Amos

#2. Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they're your friends.

Morgan Matson

#3. What good are friends who treat you just like your enemies do?

Stephen R. Donaldson

#4. You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

Buffalo Bill

#5. When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long.

John Cena

#6. You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.

Will Smith

#7. You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

Johnny Depp

#8. People who plead with you for favours
May eventually prove to be great flatterers.
Your friends are only those
Who all the time cheerfully support
Your heart's aspiration-flames.

Sri Chinmoy

#9. When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Magic Johnson

#10. I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up.

Lorrie Moore

#11. A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.

Mark Zuckerberg

#12. Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!

Joe J. Christensen

#13. In todays world the ones you trust are the ones who betray you who are your true friends ?

Priyansh Shah

#14. Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

George Vaillant

#15. Appreciate your friends and loved ones. There's no way of knowing what's coming next, so appreciate those who are close to you.

Lenny Jacobson

#16. Thank your opponents sincerely for their interest. Anyone who takes the time to disagree with you is interested in the same things you are. Think of them as people who really want to help you, and you may turn your opponents into friends.

Dale Carnegie

#17. A friend is someone to whom you can tell all your secrets, someone whom you can trust without reservation, a person who is not overawed when you are at your best, and is not turned away when you are at your worst.

Steven J. Carroll

#18. We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.

Corbin Bernsen

#19. To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

Bill Maher

#20. Maintain your relationships - for all kinds of reasons, friends are vital. Good friends, supportive friends, friends who won't judge you or try to take advantage of you.

Peter Kinderman

#21. That's what friends are for. The people who aren't in your life 'cause they're related, or hot for you. They just love you.

Christos Gage

#22. Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life.

Bryant McGill

#23. Tell me about your friends."
"I hardly knew them. The one who ran off with the girl is named Christopher Columbus. Tall guy. Really skinny. Green hair. Fangs. Six fingers on his left hand. About a hundred years old. Lots of wrinkles."
"I trust you are enjoying yourself." the commander sneered.

Brandon Mull

#24. Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

Tom Peters

#25. Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

Amy Dickinson

#26. The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don't bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you've made yourself a lonely nest to live in.

Laini Taylor

#27. There are some people who remain your best friends even if you haven't seen them for ages, and others with whom you start from scratch every time.

Francine Prose

#28. Funny how things work themselves out. Things happen that split up family and friends, then things happen that bring them back together. Everyone is in your life for a reason. My hope is for all the reasons to be good. Those who love you never lose touch, are always consistent, and unquestionable.

April Mae Monterrosa

#29. For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.

Demetri Martin

#30. If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

Plutarch

#31. 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

#32. Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

Daniel Kahneman

#33. 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

#34. Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it ... It's no good to be on your own.

Judi Dench

#35. Obviously, the opinions that are most accurate are the ones that are closest to you - your crew, your friends, your family. Those people know who you are, and that's accurate.

Joey Logano

#36. You learn who your friends are when the shit hits the fan.

Ozzy Osbourne

#37. Your success, more than you expect, will be telling - of - who your true friends are.

Kamini Arichandran

#38. Be aware of people who are standing in your circle who don't smile when you win.

Chris Marvel

#39. You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Richard M. Nixon

#40. Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Francis De Sales

#41. Discretion is the survival one needs around friends who admires you but hate your hapiness and success, and would do anything so that you are not up to them or better than them.

Darmie Orem

#42. Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.
It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#43. Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'.

Dada Bhagwan

#44. I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

Billy Connolly

#45. You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to know very much about what you've done in the past. They're starting with little information about you, and they have to do this personalization.

Adam D'Angelo

#46. When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

Keeley Hawes

#47. The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends

Maggie Stiefvater

#48. SLEEP IS NOT, DEATH IS NOT; WHO SEEM TO DIE LIVE. HOUSE YOU WERE BORN IN, FRIENDS OF YOUR SPRING-TIME, OLD MAN AND YOUNG MAID, DAY'S TOIL AND ITS GUERDON, THEY ARE ALL VANISHING, FLEEING TO FABLES, CANNOT BE MOORED. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ransom Riggs

#49. Friends are important, dontcha think? Hmmm? I think so. The way I see it, you got friends, and you got your best friend, big difference. To me, a friend's a guy who will help you move. A best friend's a guy who will help you move a body. That's how I look at it.

Dave Attell

#50. Don't hate people who show you what's wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends.

C. JoyBell C.

#51. It is often while travelling through the dark that you find the ones who shine brightest in your life. For they are the ones who remind you of your own beautiful light and show up, without a second thought, in your pain, as well as your glory.

Anna Taylor

#52. When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.

#minoradjustments101

Michael L. Williams Jr.

#53. Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what

David Archuleta

#54. If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta'ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.

Nouman Ali Khan

#55. After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

Emily Browning

#56. It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

Fernando Torres

#57. You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.

Rob Bell

#58. It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

Bob Dylan

#59. You get so much more out of life by being supportive and having loving friends who are there for you. Good friendships can make your heart light; it can make you feel giddy; it can make you feel like when you fall in love.

Poppy Delevingne

#60. I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career
every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.

Jen Lancaster

#61. Thirteen is hard. You don't know who you are yet. Who your real friends are. Who you can trust. You don't yet know what you are capable of.

Jessica Brody

#62. I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.

Lady Gaga

#63. Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

Vladimir Lenin

#64. Because family and friends are the foundation of who you are, this is a realm where no excuses should exist. Give them your all without excuses.

Farshad Asl

#65. If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Charles Bukowski

#66. Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

John Spence

#67. There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore.
The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.

Camelia C.

#68. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

Rachel Caine

#69. Someone you considered a friend will kick you to the curb because you stop hanging out so much with the fellas to be with your girlfriend. Prioritize your relationships and you will discover who your real friends are.

T.D. Jakes

#70. It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

Steven Spielberg

#71. Two main categories of people are needed in your circle; those who give you the necessary support to accomplish your dreams and those who become beneficiaries of what you achieve.

Israelmore Ayivor

#72. I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Sarah McLachlan

#73. Hanging around people you're smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#74. So why did you want to kiss me?"
"We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged.
I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are."
"And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.

Malorie Blackman

#75. Best friends are the chicks who make your problems theirs so you guys can form a gangsta posse and beat those problems to hell.

Celia Kyle

#76. You learn who your friends are when you find out who will lie for you.

Bob Saget

#77. These are your friends now, Grace Mae. A madman who eats cancer in the dark and another who searches for a different kind of killer, the kind who smiles at you in the light of day.

Mindy McGinnis

#78. The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own 'likes' to pay attention to you for more than a few seconds anyway. Unless you happen to be a kitten who's in love with a baby goat, in which case you should hire a publicist immediately.

Meghan Daum

#79. At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.

Ha Jin

#80. You have to be strong. You have to know how you are, and you have to know who your partner is and you have to know who your friends, who your real friends are.

Fergie

#81. Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.

Irene S. Levine

#82. People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#83. If strangers see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they don't know who you are. And if your friends see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they know who you are.

D.E. Stevenson

#84. With crazy [working] hours, it's not easy to find balance. However, the one silver lining is that you really find out who your friends are and who's really interested in you for you, because the schedule is challenging for any relationship.

Jenna Lee

#85. Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments
because they're willing to brave the shadows with you
and in your greatest moments
because they're not afraid to let you shine.

Nicole Yatsonsky

#86. Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#87. Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

Sean Durkin

#88. I'm lucky that I've never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you - the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends - those are the people you should listen to.

Kendall Jenner

#89. your real self always attracts your real enemies and shows your real companions.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#90. People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

Lord Chesterfield

#91. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself

Mona Hanie

#92. If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Marilyn Manson

#93. Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

Texas Bix Bender

#94. Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

Julie Brown

#95. Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

Mark Hart

#96. Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.

Mandy Hale

#97. I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

Lea Michele

#98. The greatest friends and companions in times of horrible sadness are the ones who don't attempt to fix or quantify your experience, but rather are simply present and willing to share only as little or as much of your life as you invite them into." Well

September Vaudrey

#99. Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some.

Ray Bradbury

#100. You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.

Robert Greene