Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Love

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Bible

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

11.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

15.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

16.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

17.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

18.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

20.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

22.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

23.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

24.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

27.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

28.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

29.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

30.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

31.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

34.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

35.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

36.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

37.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

38.

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

Tracy, Brian

39.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

40.

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

41.

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

Jeanne Moreau

42.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

43.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

45.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

47.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

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

50.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.