Motivational Quotes

Love

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

10.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

11.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

12.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

13.

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

14.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

15.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

16.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

17.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

20.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

21.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

22.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

23.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

24.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

25.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

26.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

27.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

28.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

30.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

31.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

32.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

33.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

34.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

35.

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

36.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

Sarton, May

38.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

39.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

40.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

41.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

44.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

46.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

47.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

48.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

49.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

50.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba