Good Neighbor Quotes

• Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

  Gladys Taber

  Art, Neighbor

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thinking

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• 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

  Order, Fields, Neighbor

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• 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.

  Brother, Humility, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• 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.

  Friendly, Who Cares, Definitions

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Friendship, God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Neighbor

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Arthur Baer

  Funny, Hiking, Your Smile

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• You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

  Howard E. Koch

  Neighbor, Ifs

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Quality, Neighbor

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.199, Ballantine Books

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• A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

  Hesiod

  Blessing, Neighbor, Misfortunes

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• A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

  Richard Whately

  Selfish, Helping Others, Men

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• Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Needs, Need You

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love You, 4th Of July, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Presidential, Fields, World

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933. According to Hans Sperber and Travis Trittschuh, American Political Terms: An Historical Dictionary, Herbert Hoover prominently used the term "good neighbor" during his tour of South America after the 1928 presidential election.

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• The only time you should 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.

  Kindness, Comedian, Looks

  "Louie: Pregnant". TV Series, tv.avclub.com. 2011.

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• Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Leave Me Alone, Neighbor, Leaving Me

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• It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

  William Castle

  Trying, Neighbor, Discouraging

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• 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

  Funny, Morning, Cutting

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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• If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

  Felix Frankfurter

  Church, Neighbor, Fence

  "Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District, 333 U.S. 203". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 8, 1948.

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• I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Fathers Day, Brother, Uncles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

  Robert Frost

  Wall, Knowledge, Science

  "MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

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• Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

  Sara Bareilles

  New York, Writing, Night

  Source: www.elle.com

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