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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

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

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

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

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