Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Saltus, Edgar

Best Quotes about Love

1.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

2.

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

Pavese, Cesare

3.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

4.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

5.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

6.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

7.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

8.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

9.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

10.

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

11.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

12.

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

13.

'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

14.

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

Ice T

15.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

16.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

17.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

18.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

19.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

20.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

21.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

23.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

24.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

25.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

27.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Lennon, John

29.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

30.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

31.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

32.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

33.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

34.

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

35.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

36.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

38.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

39.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

40.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

41.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

42.

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