Motivational Quotes

Love

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Love

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

12.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

13.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

14.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

16.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

17.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

18.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

20.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

21.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

22.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

24.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

25.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

27.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

28.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

29.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

30.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

31.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

34.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

35.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

36.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

37.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

40.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

41.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

42.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

43.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

44.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

45.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

46.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome