We Choose Our Friends Quotes

#1. Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

#2. We choose our friends; our enemies choose us.

Marty Rubin

#3. Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

Lillian B. Rubin

#4. 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

#5. The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. Even the freedom we value so highly may be working against us. We can choose our spouses, friends and neighbors, but they can choose to leave us.

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful ...

L.M. Montgomery

#7. Not everything has to be an act of grand karmic retribution. This, my friends, is determined by where you presently stand, and which direction you choose to walk.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#8. 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

#9. As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

Jack Antonoff

#10. 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

#11. 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.

Amelia Hutchins

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#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. We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

Dominick Dunne

#21. God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#25. 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