Motivational Quotes

Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Willis, Bruce

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Scott Westerfeld

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

10.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

11.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

12.

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

Peguy, Charles

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.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

16.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

20.

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

Brown, David

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

25.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

28.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

29.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

30.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

31.

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

32.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

34.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

35.

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

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

38.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

40.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

41.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

43.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

44.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

46.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

49.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John