Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Ustinov

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Jane Austen

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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.

10.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

11.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

12.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

13.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

14.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

Davis, Bette

16.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

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

19.

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

20.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

21.

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

22.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

26.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

29.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

33.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

36.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Meredith, George

38.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

39.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

40.

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

41.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

43.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

44.

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

Sarton, May

45.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

46.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

47.

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

Seneca

48.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

49.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.