Best Valentine's Day Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

“We are most alive when we're in love.”

“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

“I like perfume and flowers.”

“I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.”

“Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.”

“How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.”

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

“I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.”

“I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.”

“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!”

“You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”

“I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.”

“I'm more of a cynic, but my husband loves 'Rent.' For Valentine's Day, I got him a 'Rent' walking tour. All it was was a man pulling up photos from the movie on his phone and going, like, 'In the movie, they go to Life Cafe.' And then he took us to a thrift store and it was, like, 'Angel wore a coat you could probably find in a thrift store.'”

“My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.”

“I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine's Day more than diamonds!”

“I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn't worry about calling them on Valentine's Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK.”

“It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.”

“I love love. Every day of my life is Valentine's Day. When you're a pathological narcissist, you have to fall in love with yourself every day.”

“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”

“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.”

“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

“In love there are two things - bodies and words.”

“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.”

“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”

“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.”

“There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.”

“When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.”

“Everything's coming up roses - for me.”

“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”

“I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.”

“I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.”

“I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.'”

“It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.”

“I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine's Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, 'I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer.' And I didn't sign my name.”

“Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.”

“If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.”

“I hope what's different for not only the channel 'It's Grace' 2014, but for the brand overall, is I hope to continue to expand into other areas of creative content and original content. We have 'Camp Takota' coming out on Valentine's Day - we're all so pumped for it! It's so exciting!”

“I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.”

“I have never celebrated Valentine's Day in my life.”

“I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.”

“I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.”

“For Valentine's Day, I wrote my crush a song and had it professionally recorded. I never released it, though, because I wanted it to be a song just for her. I thought it would be more special that way.”

“People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.”

“The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.”

“I have no use for Valentine's Day, with its limited menu and cramped seating.”

“One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about that 'one that got away,' or you're recalling the fairy tale date you went on last Valentine's Day, romanticizing the past isn't helpful - nor accurate.”

“What compels the Hindu right's volcanic reaction to Valentine's Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a 'rotten imported culture' from the West.”

“I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.”

“I'm very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it's Valentine's Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends' boyfriends are away, or someone's in town, or someone had a baby, I cook.”

“January is the best time of year for gym owners. You all come. It's great! And then, by Valentine's Day, you're not coming in anymore.”

“I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.”

“I don't think I've ever had a bad Valentine's Day, I mean... c'mon, y'all know I never get a bad Valentine. Nah. Um, no, I've never really had - I don't have a bad Valentine's Day. I never really think... it doesn't come up to my mind.”

“Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.”

“I like Valentine's Day. It's fun.”

“Every Valentine's Day, I pretend I don't care. Like many of us, I say I don't want the flowers or chocolates or a homemade card. How cheesy. I pretend that it's over-the-top to want the person you like to make you a ridiculously nice dinner, or do some showy gesture, ala John Cusack with the boombox in 'Say Anything.'”

“What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.”

“Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.”

“The art of listening is a vital component to a relationship that thrives every day of the year, making Valentine's Day so much sweeter.”

“Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's either awesome or it's a downer.”

“Valentine's Day isn't always as much fun as many of us would like.”

“I like Valentine's Day for the kids. You know, they take their valentines to school and I like to see what they come home with.”

“I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.”

“Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.”

“Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.”

“People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn't give two hooty-hoots about Valentine's Day. Just because he doesn't give you a valentine doesn't mean he doesn't love you!”

“Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.”

“I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.”

“I love Valentine's Day because it's a fun day to show not only your significant other some love, but also your girlfriends and close family that you're caring for and thinking of them.”

“'In Bruges' featured two hit men on a chatty stroll in Belgium, and certain people's passion for it is fit for Valentine's Day. But it was Tupperware Tarantino to me.”

“My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.”

“Every Valentine's Day growing up, my dad would give me a strawberry cream-filled chocolate heart from Russell Stover.”

“Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed.”

“For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.”

“Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood.”

“I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.”

“I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kind of like an R-rated version of 'Valentine's Day.' So it's like all about eight couples, and me and my boyfriend play one of them together. And that was a lot of fun.”

“Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.”

“I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.”

“Since Chip and I try to go on a date night once a week, we don't feel the need to keep holidays like Valentine's Day all to ourselves. We set the table fancy, we all get dressed up, and we serve a big, beautiful candlelight dinner. It's our kids' favorite, too.”

“Valentine's Day is a perfect time to reject the idea that the ideal man is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, more renowned, or more powerful.”

“When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.”

“When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.”

“I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think it should be anything fancy, nothing crazy. As long as you're spending time with that person that's special, I think that's a great Valentine's Day.”

“I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.”

“In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?”

“Valentine's day has been reduced to a marketing gimmick. Buying diamonds for your beloved has no appeal for me.”

“I believe you can make your better half feel special on any given day and turn it in Valentine's Day.”

“I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like Valentine's Day and New Year's and Halloween.”

“Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.”

“I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.”

“As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine's Day for me - as far as hooking up with the ladies.”

“Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.”

“All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.”

“I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentine's Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.”

“I think men and women will both agree that one of the perks of being single on Valentine's Day is that you get to keep your money in your pocket.”

“I have never once celebrated a Valentine's Day as a romantic holiday. For me, it's another opportunity to tell my kids or whoever how much I love them. I hang pink crepe paper and make heart-shaped pancakes!”