Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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.

10.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

11.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

13.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

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

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Bible

16.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

17.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

19.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

21.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

24.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

25.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

26.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

29.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

30.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

32.

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

33.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

34.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

35.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

36.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

37.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

38.

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

Disney, Walt

39.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

40.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

43.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

44.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

45.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

46.

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