Motivational Quotes

Neighbors

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

- Locke, John

Best Quotes about Neighbors

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Crowley, Aleister

Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Bible

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

Crisp, Quentin

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

Confucius

If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. [James 2:8]

Bible

You shall love your neighbor as yourself. [Matthew 22:39]

Bible

Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.

McLaughlin, Dean

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Horace

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Austen, Jane

11.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Aretino, Pietro

12.

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

Beal, Louise

13.

Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.

P'Ien, Tai Shang Kan Ying

14.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

Layton, Irving

15.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Love thy neighbor but keep your high.

17.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Nader, Ralph

18.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

Cather, Willa

19.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Locke, John

20.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

Walters, J. Donald

22.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Austen, Jane

24.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Douglas, Norman

25.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Baer, Arthur

26.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

Hedges between keep friendships green.

Proverb

28.

Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Frost, Robert

30.

Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you.

Bible

31.

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.

Horace

34.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

Kempton, Murray

35.

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.

Shue, Elisabeth

36.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or injury to others, a man obtains a proper rule of action by looking at his neighbor as himself.

Mahabharta, The

38.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

39.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

Proverb, English