Motivational Quotes

Love

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

- Carmichael, Amy

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Plato

2.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

3.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

4.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

5.

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

Dane, Frank

6.

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

7.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

8.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

9.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

10.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

11.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

12.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

13.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

14.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

15.

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

Harrigan, John

16.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

17.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

18.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

19.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

20.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

21.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

22.

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

Augustine, St.

23.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

24.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

25.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

26.

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

27.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

28.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Euripides

30.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

34.

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

Buddha

35.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

36.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

37.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

38.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

39.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

40.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

41.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

42.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

43.

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

Davies, Robertson

44.

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

45.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

46.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

47.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

48.

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

Bertrand Russell

49.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

50.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug