Top 48 You Can Choose Your Friends Quotes
#1. You can choose your friends but not your friendships.
Sarah Manguso
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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.
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. 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
#18. If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
Larisa Oleynik
#19. Choose friends who are positive and loving.
Bella Sara
#20. Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
Aristotle.
#21. I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.
Joan Lunden
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Choose your friends carefully but don't worry about your enemies, they will choose you
Carl Henegan
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks
#35. You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#36. Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.
Jim George
#38. If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
Aesop
#39. 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
#40. We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.
Michelle Moran
#41. The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Dan Buettner
#42. 26The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Richard G. Lee
#43. I always love to support my friends and how they choose to express themselves creatively.
Rayvon Owen
#44. We choose our friends; our enemies choose us.
Marty Rubin
#46. Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Thomas S. Monson
#47. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yasser Arafat
#48. 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
