Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

'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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

12.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

14.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

15.

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.

16.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

17.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

18.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

19.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

20.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

21.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

28.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

30.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

32.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

33.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

35.

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

36.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Brown, Les

39.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

40.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

45.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.