Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Carmichael, Amy

2.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

3.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

5.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

6.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

10.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

12.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

13.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

14.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

20.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

21.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

22.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

23.

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

24.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

27.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

28.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

30.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

31.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

32.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

35.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

37.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

38.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

40.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

41.

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

Martineau, Harriet

42.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

43.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

44.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

45.

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

46.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

48.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

49.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

50.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.