Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

2.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

3.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

4.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

5.

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

6.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

7.

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

Wilkerson, David

8.

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

Seneca

9.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

10.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

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

Southey, Robert

12.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

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

14.

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

15.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

17.

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

18.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

19.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

20.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

Charles M. Schulz

22.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

23.

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

24.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

25.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

26.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

27.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

28.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

29.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

30.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

31.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

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

Saltus, Edgar

33.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

34.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

37.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

39.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

40.

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

41.

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

Croft, Roy

42.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

43.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Ice T

46.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

47.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

48.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

49.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil