Company You Keep Quotes

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.

My mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep.’ To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow.

Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.

Sister Virginia used to say, ‘You’ll be known by the company you keep.’

… It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.

A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses.