Company You Keep Quotes

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

  Colin Powell

  Men, Mirrors, Faces

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

  Epictetus

  Friendship, Best Friend, Uplifting

  "The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness, A New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell". Book by Epictetus, 1994.

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• You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep.

  Leonard A Cole

  Sexuality, Responsible, Judged

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.

  T. B. Joshua

  Virtue, Company, Who You Are

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• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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• 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.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Inspirational, Reading, Book

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1851). “Self-education”, p.65

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• If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.

  R. D. Laing

  Spring, Passion, Priceless

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• You got to be careful of the company you keep.

  Dave Chappelle

  Be Careful, Careful, Company

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

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Men, World

  Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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

  Masha Gessen

  Opportunity, Firsts, Your Freedom

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• ... 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.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Fall, Want, Moments

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

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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

  Dada Vaswani

  People, Type, Associates

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

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Differences, Heaven, Principles

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

  Kevin Hart

  Careers, Chance, De Niro

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• Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Book, Library, Careful

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1851). “Self-education”, p.65

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• 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.

  Howard Schultz

  Mother, Age, Labels

  "Starbucks boss: we're not all froth". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2009.

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

  Michael Scheuer

  Sister, Virginia, Used

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• 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.

  Jon Blais

  Sweet, Grief, Night

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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

  Keri Hulme

  Chance, All Things, Dependent

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.416, LSU Press

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