Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Bible

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

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

16.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Du Coeur

18.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

19.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

22.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

23.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

24.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

27.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

28.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

30.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

31.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

35.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

36.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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

Sophocles

38.

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

39.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

40.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Hertl, Nick

42.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

43.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

44.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

45.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

46.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

47.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

48.

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

Law, William

49.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

50.

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