Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Love

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

Confucius

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ice T

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

10.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

13.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

14.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

15.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

16.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

17.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

18.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

19.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

Bible

21.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

22.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

24.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

25.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

28.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

29.

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

Buddha

30.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

31.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

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

Pavese, Cesare

33.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

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

35.

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

Mcdonald, George

36.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

37.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

40.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

41.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

42.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

44.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Willis, Bruce

46.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

47.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

48.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

50.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen