Motivational Quotes

Love

True love is the parent of humility.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Duffy, Maureen

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

10.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

11.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

13.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

16.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

17.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

18.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

19.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

20.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

23.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

24.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

25.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

26.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

29.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

30.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

31.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

32.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

33.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

34.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

35.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

36.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

38.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

39.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

40.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

41.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

42.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

43.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

44.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

45.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

46.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

47.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

48.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

49.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

50.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese