Motivational Quotes

Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

- Shadwell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

Laing, R. D.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Euripides

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

10.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Heinlein, Robert

12.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

13.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

14.

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

15.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

16.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

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

Peter Ustinov

18.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

19.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

23.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

24.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

26.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

27.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

30.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

32.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Carroll, Pat

34.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

35.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

37.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

38.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

39.

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

40.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

41.

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

Reagan, Ronald

42.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

44.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

46.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

47.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

49.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa