Motivational Quotes

Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

10.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

11.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

12.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

13.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

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

Buddha

15.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

16.

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

17.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

18.

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

Jeph Jacques

19.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

20.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

21.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

22.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

23.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

24.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

25.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

26.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

27.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

32.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

33.

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

34.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

35.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

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

Jeanne Moreau

38.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Desai, Yogi

41.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

42.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

43.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

44.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

45.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

46.

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

47.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

49.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.