Motivational Quotes

Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Croft, Roy

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

Bible

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

10.

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

11.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

13.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

14.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

16.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

17.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

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

Julie Morgenstern

19.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

20.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

21.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

22.

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

23.

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

Confucius

24.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

27.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

28.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

32.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

33.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

35.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

36.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

37.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

38.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

39.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

40.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

41.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

42.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Willis, Bruce

47.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

48.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.