Motivational Quotes

Neighbors

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

Best Quotes about Neighbors

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

Layton, Irving

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Bible

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

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

Horace

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

Douglas, Norman

Good fences make good neighbors.

Frost, Robert

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

Hedges between keep friendships green.

Proverb

14.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Austen, Jane

21.

Love thy neighbor but keep your high.

22.

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

Beal, Louise

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Shue, Elisabeth

26.

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

Nader, Ralph

27.

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

Baer, Arthur

28.

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.

29.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

30.

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

Aretino, Pietro

31.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Austen, Jane

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

McLaughlin, Dean

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

P'Ien, Tai Shang Kan Ying

36.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

Proverb, English

37.

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

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

40.

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