Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mooneyham, Stan

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Charles M. Schulz

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.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

10.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

11.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

12.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

14.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

15.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

17.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

18.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

19.

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

20.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

21.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

22.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ice T

24.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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

26.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

27.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

29.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Japanese

37.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

44.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

46.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Real love stories never have endings.