Brotherhood Sayings and Quotes, Inspirational Sayings

Brotherhood Sayings and Quotes
Enjoy the wisdom in these brotherhood sayings and quotes. We hope you find them motivating and that they remind you we are all brothers and sisters.

"We should all lend a helping hand to those in need as we are all brothers and sisters." Catherine Pulsifer

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." Herman Melville

"The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come." Charles Sumner

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." William Boetcker

"God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood." Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." Thomas Merton

"If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too." Oscar Hammerstein II

"You cannot see brotherhood; neither can you hear it nor taste it. But you can feel it a hundred times a day. It is the pat on the back when things look gloomy. It is the smile of encouragement when the way seems hard. It is the helping hand when the burden becomes unbearable." Peter E. Terzick

"Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all." Johann Von Schiller

"Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face." St. Francis of Assisi

"Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds." Stephen Vincent Benet

"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." Irish Proverb

"I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at." Maya Angelou

"The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers." Thomas Carlyle

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." Thomas Paine

"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all." Heywood Broun

"Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival." Carlos P. Romulo

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it." Mark Twain

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"United we stand, divided we fall." Aesop

"There is the sky, which is all men's together." Euripides (412 B.C.)

"The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood." Arthur Powell Davies

"Live and let live." Scottish Proverb

"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. " Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God." H. M. Field

"Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind." Tryon Edwards

"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood." Edwin Markham

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood." Lyndon Baines Johnson

"Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood." Louisa May Alcott

"Our true nationality is mankind." H.G. Wells

"There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone." Edwin Markham

"Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass." Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"If God is thy father, man is thy brother." Lamartine

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John F. Kennedy

"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace." Max Lerner

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." Anne Frank

"When strangers start acting like neighbors...communities are reinvigorated." Ralph Nader

"As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?" Lyndon B. Johnson

"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace." Max Lerner