Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Love

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Delp, Alexis

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

10.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

11.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

13.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

16.

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

17.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

18.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

21.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

22.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

26.

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

27.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

30.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

31.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

32.

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

Euripides

33.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

34.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

38.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

39.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

40.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

41.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

42.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

43.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

44.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

45.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

46.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

48.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

49.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

50.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett