Motivational Quotes

Love

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Reagan, Ronald

2.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

3.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

4.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

5.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

6.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

7.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

8.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

9.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

10.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

11.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

12.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

13.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

14.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

15.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

16.

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

17.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

19.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

20.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

23.

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

Davies, Robertson

24.

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

25.

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

26.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

27.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

28.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

29.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

30.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

31.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

32.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

33.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

34.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

37.

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

Jeph Jacques

38.

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

39.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

40.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

41.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

42.

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

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

45.

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

Aristotle

46.

We don't always get to choose what we love.