Motivational Quotes

Love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

10.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

12.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

13.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

14.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

15.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

16.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Harrigan, John

18.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

19.

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

20.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

22.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

27.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

28.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

30.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

31.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

32.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

33.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

34.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

36.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

37.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

38.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

39.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

40.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

41.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

45.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

46.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

47.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

48.

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

Brookner, Anita

49.

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

Southey, Robert

50.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William