Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bible

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

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

10.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

11.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

12.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

14.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

16.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

17.

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

18.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

19.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

24.

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

Orwell, George

25.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

26.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

30.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

32.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

33.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

37.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

38.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

39.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

40.

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

41.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

43.

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

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

47.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

48.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

49.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

50.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb