Friendships often resemble family ties, and many of us have that one special friend who feels like a sibling. The term “brother from another mother” perfectly encapsulates that unique bond.
These quotes celebrate friendship, loyalty, and the unbreakable connections we form with those who become family through choice, not blood. Here are some heartfelt quotes to honor those amazing friendships.
1. Celebrating Friendship
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
Quote 2
Author: John C. Maxwell
Description: “Friendship is not something you find. It’s something that finds you.”
Quote 3
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description: “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Quote 4
Author: C.S. Lewis
Description: “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
Quote 5
Author: Maya Angelou
Description: “I don’t believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing ventured is nothing gained.”
Quote 6
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Quote 7
Author: Aristotle
Description: “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Quote 8
Author: Oprah Winfrey
Description: “A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”
Quote 9
Author: Mark Twain
Description: “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Quote 10
Author: Thomas Aquinas
Description: “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
2. Bonds Like Brothers
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “Brothers aren’t just family; they are friends for life.”
Quote 2
Author: William Shakespeare
Description: “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
Quote 3
Author: George Eliot
Description: “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Quote 4
Author: John Lennon
Description: “I get by with a little help from my friends.”
Quote 5
Author: Eric F. Shapiro
Description: “Friendship is a promise made in the heart, silent, unwritten, unbreakable by distance.”
Quote 6
Author: John Steinbeck
Description: “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”
Quote 7
Author: Victor Hugo
Description: “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Quote 8
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Description: “Friendship is the foundation of all great relationships.”
Quote 9
Author: Aesop
Description: “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Quote 10
Author: Marilyn Monroe
Description: “I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”
3. Unbreakable Connections
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “Brothers by blood, friends by choice.”
Quote 2
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Quote 3
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description: “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Quote 4
Author: Aristotle
Description: “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Quote 5
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Description: “Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
Quote 6
Author: Maya Angelou
Description: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Quote 7
Author: Frank A. Clark
Description: “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
Quote 8
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Quote 9
Author: Anonymous
Description: “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”
Quote 10
Author: William Shakespeare
Description: “The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.”
4. Choosing Your Family
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs.”
Quote 2
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Description: “The family is a cell of resistance to oppression.”
Quote 3
Author: John C. Maxwell
Description: “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
Quote 4
Author: Maya Angelou
Description: “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Quote 5
Author: Unknown
Description: “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
Quote 6
Author: Henri Nouwen
Description: “Community is where humility and glory touch.”
Quote 7
Author: Oprah Winfrey
Description: “True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for that experience.'”
Quote 8
Author: Anonymous
Description: “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
Quote 9
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Quote 10
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Description: “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
5. The Essence of Brotherhood
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “Brothers are what friends become.”
Quote 2
Author: E. Joseph Cossman
Description: “Friendship is not a big thing; it’s a million little things.”
Quote 3
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Quote 4
Author: Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Description: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Quote 5
Author: John Donne
Description: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”
Quote 6
Author: Unknown
Description: “A true brother is always there to support you, no matter the circumstances.”
Quote 7
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description: “A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.”
Quote 8
Author: Anonymous
Description: “The best part of having a brother is that you always have a friend.”
Quote 9
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Description: “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Quote 10
Author: Dale Carnegie
Description: “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
6. Laughter and Memories
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “Brothers from another mother share laughter like they share secrets.”
Quote 2
Author: Pablo Picasso
Description: “It takes a long time to become young.”
Quote 3
Author: Anonymous
Description: “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
Quote 4
Author: Andy Warhol
Description: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”
Quote 5
Author: Charles Dickens
Description: “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
Quote 6
Author: Unknown
Description: “Friendship is the only flower that blooms in all seasons.”
Quote 7
Author: Oscar Wilde
Description: “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
Quote 8
Author: Anonymous
Description: “Good times + Crazy friends = Amazing memories.”
Quote 9
Author: Robert Frost
Description: “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
Quote 10
Author: Mark Twain
Description: “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
7. The Heart of Brotherhood
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “Brothers are the ones who stick with you through thick and thin.”
Quote 2
Author: Aristotle
Description: “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Quote 3
Author: John Quincy Adams
Description: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
Quote 4
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description: “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Quote 5
Author: Maya Angelou
Description: “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
Quote 6
Author: Unknown
Description: “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”
Quote 7
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Description: “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Quote 8
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
Quote 9
Author: C.S. Lewis
Description: “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
Quote 10
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
8. Lessons in Brotherhood
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “Brothers from another mother teach us valuable life lessons.”
Quote 2
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Description: “Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
Quote 3
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”
Quote 4
Author: Victor Hugo
Description: “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Quote 5
Author: Maya Angelou
Description: “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
Quote 6
Author: Anonymous
Description: “A brother is a friend given by nature.”
Quote 7
Author: Thomas Merton
Description: “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.”
Quote 8
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Description: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Quote 9
Author: John Lennon
Description: “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
Quote 10
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
9. Brotherhood in Difficult Times
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “True brothers are those who stand by you in your darkest times.”
Quote 2
Author: Victor Hugo
Description: “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Quote 3
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Description: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Quote 4
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Description: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Quote 5
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Quote 6
Author: Anonymous
Description: “Friends are the siblings we choose for ourselves.”
Quote 7
Author: J.K. Rowling
Description: “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
Quote 8
Author: Mother Teresa
Description: “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
Quote 9
Author: Aesop
Description: “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Quote 10
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”
10. Brotherhood for Life
Quote 1
Author: Unknown
Description: “A brother from another mother is a friend for life.”
Quote 2
Author: C.S. Lewis
Description: “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
Quote 3
Author: Maya Angelou
Description: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Quote 4
Author: Anonymous
Description: “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
Quote 5
Author: Helen Keller
Description: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.”
Quote 6
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description: “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
Quote 7
Author: Unknown
Description: “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
Quote 8
Author: John C. Maxwell
Description: “The secret to lasting friendship is understanding.”
Quote 9
Author: Anonymous
Description: “Your vibe attracts your tribe.”
Quote 10
Author: Aristotle
Description: “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
