I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt Cobain

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Buddha

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
Muhammad Ali

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Vince Lombardi

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae West