A person who behaves in a friendly, polite and nice manner towards their neighbours is a good neighbour. In a world full of chaos, stress and challenges, it is the people who live near you can play a lot of difference in making each other lives better. All of us should learn to live in harmony to make the world a happy and peaceful place. Here are the best neighbour quotes compiled by our team for you. Let’s have a read!
Good Neighbour Quotes
“Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Love thy neighbor yes, but love thyself first.” – Solange Nicole
“You can change friends but not neighbors.” – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.” – Gladys Taber
“It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.”- Publilius Syrus
“Appreciate your neighbour before they turn into haters” – Unknown
“Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors’.” – Ellen Glasgow
“Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.” – Pawan Mishra
“The happiest people I know are people who don’t even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.” – Harold S. Kushner
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.” – William Inge
“A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.” – Hesiod
“You shall love your neighbor. With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness – it’s perfect.” – John Green
“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.” – George Eliot (Neighbour Quotes)
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.” – George Eliot
“Definition of good neighbor: someone to be trusted; a courteous, friendly source of help when help is needed; someone you can count on; someone who cares.” – Edward B. Rust, Jr.
“If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.” – Peter Deunov
“A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it.” – Arthur Baer
“A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.” – Rupert Brooke
“It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.” – Eric Hoffer
“All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.” – Criss Jami (Good neighbour quotes)
“It doesn’t work if the bad guys kill his mother’s uncle’s friend’s neighbor’s pet dog. You’ve got to make the stakes high.” – Steven Seagal
“The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.” – Louis C.K.
“A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and strangers.” – David Lammy
“Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.” – Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.” – Harry S. Truman
“In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as ‘the people of peace,’ ‘the little people,’ and ‘the good neighbors’.” – Holly Black
“It’s recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” – Harry S Truman
“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.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“One must love God first, and only then can one love one’s closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.” – Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“We all have neighbors. Greet them on the sidewalk or in the elevator, but try not to peer through their windows. Windows are to look out from, not into.” – Alexandra Stoddard (Neighbour Quotes)
“They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.” – Norman Douglas
“If we don’t live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs from our neighbors’ reality, our surroundings may take a range of discordant shades and daily episodes become unrecognizable. But if we endeavor to find out, the “who is who”, the “what is what” and the “where is Waldo”, we might demonstrate our social literacy and connectedness.” – Erik Pevernagie
“Even the devil’s eyes can’t be as sharp as the neighbors’.” – Heinrich Boll
“Maintenance of good relations with the neighbors, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.” – Sheikh Hasina
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.” – Elizabeth Knox
“When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.”- Jennifer Pahlka
“Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.” – Franklin P. Jones
