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

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

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

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

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

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

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

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

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

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

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

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

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

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

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

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

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

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

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

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

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

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

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

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

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

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

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

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

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

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

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

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

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

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

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie