Motivational Quotes

Love

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Japanese

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

10.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

11.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

12.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

15.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

17.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

18.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

19.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

20.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

21.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

22.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

23.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

25.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

26.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

27.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

29.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

30.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

33.

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

DiFranco, Ani

34.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

35.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

36.

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

37.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

38.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

39.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

41.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

46.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

47.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

49.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

50.

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

Hertl, Nick