1961 Quote of the Day

Welcome to these 1961 Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs

Related topics: Romantic Love

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie