Motivational Quotes

Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

12.

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

13.

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

14.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

15.

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

16.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

18.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

19.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

20.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

23.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

25.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

29.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

30.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Mcdonald, George

35.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

36.

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

37.

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

Mother Teresa

38.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

43.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

44.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

45.

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

46.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

47.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

48.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

49.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

50.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary