Motivational Quotes

Love

True love is the parent of humility.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about 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

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

Southey, Robert

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

Turner, Ted

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Reik, Theodor

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

10.

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

Bible

11.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

12.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

13.

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

14.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

15.

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

Martineau, Harriet

16.

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

17.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

18.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

19.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

21.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

24.

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

J. K. Rowling

25.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

27.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

29.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

30.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

31.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

34.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

35.

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

36.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

37.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

38.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

39.

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

40.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

41.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

42.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Murdoch, Iris

44.

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

Augustine, St.

45.

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

46.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

47.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

48.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

49.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

50.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert