130 Brotherly Love Quotes

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Famous Brotherly Love Quotes

Brotherly love for brotherly love, but cheese for money. — Albanian Proverbs

Brothers love each other when they are equally rich. — African Proverbs

A brother is a friend provided by nature. — Legouve Pere

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! — Paramahansa Yogananda

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else. — Tim Hetherington

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

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. — Bible Proverbs

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time. — Bible Proverbs

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way. - The Notorious B.I.G.

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way. — The Notorious B.I.G.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. - Antisthenes

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. — Antisthenes

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers? — James Longstreet

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother — Homer

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. — Carlos Pena Romulo

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin

Short Brotherly Love Quotes

  • The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood. — A. Powell Davies
  • If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race. — Omar Epps
  • Friends show their love in times of trouble... — Euripides
  • A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. — Homer
  • Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. — Marc Brown
  • When man to man shall be friend and brother. — Gerald Massey
  • We have come here with a message of love and brotherhood. — Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode. — Ovid
  • The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. — Mark Twain
  • In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies. — Marcus Luttrell

Top 10 Brotherly Love Quotes

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. — Sayings

Never make a companion equal to a brother. - Hesiod

Never make a companion equal to a brother. — Hesiod

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three. — Unknown Author

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. — Jane Austen

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. — Anna Quindlen

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. — Robert E. Lee

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. - Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. — Byron Katie

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it. — Natalie Imbruglia

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. — Washington Irving

Brotherly Love Image Quotes

Brotherly love quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Sisterly Brotherly Love Quotes

See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family. — Henry B. Eyring

Brotherly love quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. — Erma Bombeck

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another. — Ann Richards

To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus. — Pope Francis

Brotherly love quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. — Eric Maisel

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. — Sam Levenson

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. — Linda Sunshine

All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate. — George W. Bush

Brotherly Love Brother Quotes

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Brotherly love quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit. — Tecumseh

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. — Dylan Thomas

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers. — Stevie Nicks

Brotherly love quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them. — Peter De Vries

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. - Cassandra Clare

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. — Cassandra Clare

The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe. — William Howard Taft

If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother. — African Proverbs

Love My Brother Quotes

If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers. — Dennis Wilson

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother. — Brandy Norwood

Brotherly love quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart. — Willie Morris

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. — Caroline Kennedy

I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills. — Emo Philips

Brotherly love quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it. — Woody Allen

I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace. — Pamela Des Barres

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. — William Shakespeare

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president. — Michelle Obama

I Love My Brother Quotes

As much as I love and respect my brother, Im doing my best to distance myself from him and kind of show people that, even though we do look similar and have similar mannerisms, we are completely different. — Dave Franco

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother. — Ted Demme

It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister. — Thomas Merton

Brotherly love quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary — Cassandra Clare

It makes me feel like a brother, or a son that people still care for me... that I have so many fans, who write to me and share with me that I am loved and have been an inspiration. My Dear Fans This I Promise I Will Never Forget. One Love! — Asafa Powell

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it. — Keith Miller

Brotherly love quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. — William Shakespeare

Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too? — Rick Santorum

Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever. — Mario Puzo

I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives. — Cornel West

True Brotherhood Quotes

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Brotherly love quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Harness the fire hidden in The Eucharist to bring about a true brotherhood and unity. — Jaime Sin

I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity. — Robert M. Hensel

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence. — Paul Tsongas

Brotherly love quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

The true gospel of Jesus Christ never led to bigotry. It never led to self-righteousn ess. It never led to arrogance. The true gospel of Jesus Christ leads to brotherhood, to friendship, to appreciation of others, to respect and kindness and love — Gordon B. Hinckley

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us. — Jo Bonner

If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion. — Sri Chinmoy

I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words — Malcolm X

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More Brotherly Love Quotes

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'. — Dorothy Day

The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves. — William Howard Taft

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an 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. — Francis of Assisi

O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen. — Ephrem the Syrian

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand. — Mother Teresa

If the word 'integration' means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. — James A. Baldwin

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day. — Sayings

I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music. — Mike Love

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives. — Vincent Van Gogh

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism. — Theodore Roosevelt

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