100 Motivational Quotes About Love

100 Motivational Quotes About Love That Will Inspire You

Love is one of the most important emotions in the world, yet it’s also one of the hardest to define. Even psychologists have trouble explaining exactly what love is, yet we can all agree that it’s something special and worthy of its own day every February 14th! To help celebrate this special holiday, here are 100+ motivational quotes about love that will inspire you to love yourself, appreciate your family and friends, and share your affection with everyone you meet!

100+ Motivational Quotes About Love

Everything you need to know about love can be learned from these 100 quotes. Whether you’re looking for romance or inspiration, check out some of these motivational quotes about love.  These quotes will teach you how to love Enjoy! 

1. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche
2. No man is useless who has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson 
3. Love is like a quicksilver in hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. – Dorothy Parker
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5. It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.- Anonymous
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7. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 
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9. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.- Bruce Lee
10. Love looks not with eyes but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.- William Shakespeare 
11. Where there is love there is life.- Mahatma Gandhi 
12. Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.- Anonymous 
13. Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.- Franklin P. Jones 
14. Love doesn’t make things nice – it ruins everything! It breaks your heart...It makes things a mess...- Dinah Washington 
15. True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.- Erich Segal 
16. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit.- Peter Ustinov 
17. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.- James Baldwin 
18. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, and penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.- Maya Angelou 
19. The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return.- Oscar Hammerstein II
20.  Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.- James A. Baldwin 
21. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.- Khalil Gibran 
22. To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.- Bess Myerson 
23. Love means never having to say you're sorry.- Love Story (movie) 
24. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.- Joan Crawford 
25. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.- Aristotle 
26. Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.- Mae West 
27. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.- William Shakespeare 
28. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.- Voltaire 
29. Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.- Benjamin Franklin 
30. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.- Katharine Hepburn 
31. Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.- Loretta Young 
32. There's only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.- George Sand 
33. All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.– John Lennon 
34. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.- William Shakespeare 
35. Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.- Barbara de Angelis 
36. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.- Pablo Neruda 
37. Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep.- Elbert Hubbard 
38. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.- Tom Robbins 
39. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.– George Bernard Shaw 
40. Love is a game that two can play and both win.- Eva Gabor 
41. Love does not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height is taken.- William Shakespeare 
42. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.– William Shakespeare
43.  Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear prey.– Dante Alighieri 
44. When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. 
45. Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without. – Anonymous  
46. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. It’s a love that lasts forever. – Unknown 
47. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost
48. Real love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach ~~~ 
49. Love is friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell 
50. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein 
51. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa 
52. You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. – Julia Roberts 
53. True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
54. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. – George Bernard Shaw 
55. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God. 
56. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. – Mother Teresa 
57. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov 
58. The more you love, the more you can love – and be loved. – Leo Buscaglia 
59. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery 
60. The best proof of love is trust. 
61. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. – Amy Carmichael 
62. Love is like a beautiful flower that I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. – Helen Keller 
63. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov
64. Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
65.  Love is a great beautifier. – Louisa May Alcott 8. True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. – Robert Fulghum 
66. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
67. If you would be loved, love, and be lovable. – Benjamin Franklin 
68. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford 
69. Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it. – Old Proverb 
70. I am not in love with you, but I’m in love with being in love with you. – Anonymous 
71. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other! – Audrey Hepburn 
72. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.- Aristotle 
73. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire that those who love generously know.- Eleanor Roosevelt 
74. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford 
75. Love is not blind – it sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less. – Storm Jameson 
76. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved despite ourselves. – Victor Hugo 
77. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller 
78. Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. 
79. Love is a mutual self-giving that ends in self-recovery. – Fulton J. Sheen 
80. The love we give away is the only love we keep. – Elbert Hubbard 
81. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved despite ourselves. – Victor Hugo 
82. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. 
83. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford 
84. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken 
85. You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. – Oscar Wilde
86. True love doesn’t have a happy ending... true love doesn’t have an ending at all!
87. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford 
88. If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – A. A. Milne 
89. We are all born for love...it is the principle of existence and its only end. 
90. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford 
91. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. – Moulin Rouge
92. True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. – Erich Segal 
93. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. – Paulo Coelho 
94. True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. – François de la Rochefoucauld 
95. Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile! – Franklin P Jones 
96. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa 
97. The best and most beautiful things in life can not be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller 
98. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit. — Peter Ustinov 
99. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa 
100. I have found that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. — Mother Teresa 

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