Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.
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.
College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were.
Pick a good set of friends that are going to allow you to move in the right direction.
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
If you're going to choose your friends, you better choose them well, because when you look at your friends, you're looking at a mirror reflection. You're looking at you; you are looking at you.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
I don't pick my friends based on politics.
My parents always told me to choose my friends very carefully and I learnt to live by that advice.
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
