Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Willis, Bruce

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Margaret Cho

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Hertl, Nick

14.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

15.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

17.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

18.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

19.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

20.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

22.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

23.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

25.

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

Donne, John

26.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

27.

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.

28.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

31.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

32.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

33.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

34.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

35.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

36.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

37.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

38.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

40.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

41.

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

42.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

44.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

47.

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

48.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

49.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

50.

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