Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Bible

11.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

12.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

13.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

14.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

16.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

18.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Proverb, Japanese

23.

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

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Law, William

27.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

28.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

29.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

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

Disney, Walt

34.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

38.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

39.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

43.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

45.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

46.

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

Toni Morrison

47.

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

John Sheffield

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.