Motivational Quotes

Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Nathan, George Jean

10.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

12.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

13.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

14.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

Bailey, Pearl

17.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

18.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

20.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

21.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

22.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

23.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

24.

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

Southey, Robert

25.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

26.

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

27.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

29.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

31.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

32.

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

Heinlein, Robert

33.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

34.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

35.

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

36.

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

37.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Bible

40.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

41.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

42.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

43.

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

44.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

46.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

47.

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

48.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

49.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

50.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery