65 Lovable Quotes On Success In Life
These lovable quotes will inspire you. Lovable, having qualities that attract affection or inspire or deserving love or affection.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging lovable quotes, lovable sayings, and lovable proverbs.
Best Lovable Quotes
- “I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable and, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving.” ~ Fred Rogers
- “Love does not come on schedule or on time. It comes unexpected, it comes unplanned. Do not shut your doors on love just because you’ve been hurt before. Let go of the need to be loved. Just be loving. Others will be able to see how loving and lovable you are when you express it” ~ Rita Zahara
- “The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary…if you can’t have what you love, love what you have…as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]” ~ James Jeans
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“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.” ~ Robertson Davies
- “You have to look closely
To see that it is pretty
You have to look long
To see that it is lovable
You are the same” ~ Na Taejoo - “Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)” ~ Brennan Manning
- “Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.” ~ Louise Hay
- “Precious and priceless, so lovable, too; The world’s sweetest miracle, baby, is you.” ~ Helen Steiner Rice
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“A man’s foibles are what makes him lovable.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.” ~ Deb Caletti
- “At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.” ~ Paul Tournier , Feeling lovable quotes
- “Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.” ~ Albert Ellis
- “Loving yourself…does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion” ~ Margot Anand
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“Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.” ~ Judah Smith
- “Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we’d reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved.” ~ Tara Brach
- “Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.” ~ Dick Gregory
- “The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.” ~ Marquis de Sade
- “When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.” ~ Nhat Hanh
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“I’ve gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don’t really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.” ~ Jennifer Aniston
- “What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.” ~ Erich Fromm
- “We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.” ~ Richard Wurmbrand
- “They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in. All I had to do was write a character that was like my mom, and it made my life easier.” ~ Dan Fogelman
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“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.” ~ Aidan Chambers
- “A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.” ~ Thomas Aquinas
- “You don’t have to run around world proving you’re lovable.” ~ Henri Nouwen
- “There is more to someone being lovable than the way they look.” ~ Cassandra Clare
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“If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.” ~ T. D. Jakes
- “Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.” ~ Gerry Spence
- “We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.” ~ Thomas Merton
- “The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “I’m the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I’m a con man and I’m thoroughly lovable.” ~ Steve Martin
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“It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable” ~ Ashley Montagu
- “Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they’re lovable or detestable in a TV way – defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.” ~ Jonathan Rosenbaum
- “The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger.” ~ Judith Crist
- “Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he’s a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go ‘Jesus!’ He’s really sweet, really kind of lovable. He’s like a cartoon character.” ~ Gerard Way
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“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.” ~ Gillian Flynn
- “The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.” ~ Karl Popper
- “No doubt the Jews aren’t a lovable people; I don’t care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.” ~ Neville Chamberlain
- “I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued in a few seconds. In the almost 50 years that I have worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ’s love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ’s love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.” ~ Frederick Buechner , Romantic lovable quotes
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“The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.” ~ Eugene Kennedy
- “The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.” ~ Douglas Davis
- “He wasn’t very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)” ~ Kerry Packer
- “The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.” ~ Alan Watts
- “Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren’t the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.” ~ Brandon Sanderson
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“If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It’s a good place to start.” ~ David Levithan
- “I would say what scares me is that I’m going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I’m really not lovable, that I’m not worthy of being loved. That there’s something fundamentally wrong with me.” ~ Demi Moore
- “Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.” ~ Les Paul , Lovable quotes wife
- “There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “There’s more to someone being lovable than the way they look.” “…he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it’s got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is.” “All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.” ~ Cassandra Clare
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“One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)” ~ Brennan Manning
- “Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don’t need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Havin’ fun while freedom fightin’ must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water – which is known to have lithium in it – because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.” ~ Molly Ivins
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“I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.” ~ Charles Perrault
- “Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he’s the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he’s the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you’re talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).” ~ Jerry Saltz
- “…men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.” ~ Christine Quinn
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“The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- “I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it’s all lovable losers that gathered together – ‘Taxi’ and ‘Cheers,’ ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Friends.'” ~ Matthew Perry
- “Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.” ~ Joseph Joubert
