Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

12.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

14.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

15.

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

Julie Morgenstern

16.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

17.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

21.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

22.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

23.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

24.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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.

27.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

28.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

29.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

30.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

32.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

35.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

36.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

40.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

41.

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

42.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

43.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

44.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

45.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

47.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

48.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

49.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

50.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas