Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Jane Austen

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mcdonald, George

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

10.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

11.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Rossetti, Christina

13.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

15.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

16.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

Jeph Jacques

18.

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

19.

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

Mother Teresa

20.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

22.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

26.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

27.

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

28.

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

Du Coeur

29.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

30.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

32.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

34.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

35.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

38.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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

40.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

42.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

43.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

44.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

45.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Ice T

47.

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

48.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

49.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

50.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph