Motivational Quotes

Love

The only victory over love is flight.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Love

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

15.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

16.

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

Bailey, Pearl

17.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

18.

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

Tracy, Brian

19.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

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

21.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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

Brown, David

23.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

24.

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

25.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

26.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

27.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

28.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

29.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

30.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

31.

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

Eucharista Ward

32.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

33.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

34.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

35.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

Kempis, Thomas

37.

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

Brown, Les

38.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

39.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

40.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

41.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

43.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

44.

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

45.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Plato

49.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

50.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert