Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

2.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

3.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

5.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

6.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

7.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

8.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

9.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

10.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

11.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

12.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

13.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

14.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

15.

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

Jeanne Moreau

16.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

17.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

18.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

19.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

20.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

21.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

22.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

25.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

26.

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

27.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

31.

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

Southey, Robert

32.

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

Bible

33.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

34.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

35.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

36.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Jeph Jacques

38.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

40.

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

41.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

42.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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.

44.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

45.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

47.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

48.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

49.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

50.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John