Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Traherne, Thomas

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

10.

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

Vicious, Sid

11.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

14.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

15.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

16.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

17.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

18.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

19.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

20.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

22.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

23.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

24.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

25.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

26.

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

27.

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

Blanton, Smiley

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

31.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

32.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

34.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

36.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

37.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

38.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

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

43.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

44.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

45.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

46.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

47.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

48.

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

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

50.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord