Be careful the friends you choose

Be careful the friends you choose -
by W. Clement Stone

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
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I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To state the facts frankly
is not to despair the future nor indict the past.
The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies
and gives a faithful accounting
to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
- John F. Kennedy

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

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Be careful the friends you choose -
by W. Clement Stone