Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Duras, Marguerite

10.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

12.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

13.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

14.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

15.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

16.

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

17.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

18.

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

19.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

20.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

21.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

24.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

26.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

28.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

29.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

30.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

31.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

32.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

37.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

38.

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

39.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

40.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

43.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

46.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

48.

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

49.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

50.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford