Motivational Quotes

Love

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

12.

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

Scott Westerfeld

13.

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

Jeph Jacques

14.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

15.

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

Bible

16.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

19.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

20.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

21.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

24.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

25.

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

26.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

29.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Bible

31.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

32.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

35.

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

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

38.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

39.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

41.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

42.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

43.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

44.

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

45.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

46.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

47.

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

48.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

49.

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

Bible

50.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas