Relationship Quotes
These best relationship quotes and sayings are for everyone. No matter how young or old you are, there is always something new to learn in a relationship.
Here are some great relationship sayings that can give you better and deeper insights. Some reflections can bring a smile, some can inspire you, and some can give you great advice.
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Quotes About Relationships
1.) The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
Neale Donald Walsch
2.) Love is no assignment for cowards.
Ovid
3.) The one who loves the least controls the relationship.
Robert Newton Anthony
4.) If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
5.) If a relationship is founded on love, it doesn’t end.
Rosanne Cash
6.) Knowing when a relationship has run its course is important. Sometimes, all you can say is, I’ve learned all I can learn from this person, and we’ve grown all we can together, and it’s time to move on.
Unknown
7.) The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships is; We listen half, understand quarter, think zero, and react double.
Unknown
8.) Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment, for someday, that person might not be there again. Give time to love; give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
Bob Moorehead
9.) Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.
Milan Kundera
10.) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
11.) There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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New Relationships Quotations
12.) No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book… Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!
C. JoyBell C.
13.) I know you think I’m crazy. Maybe that’s because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.
Crystal Woods
14.) Before you begin a relationship with someone, make sure that your relationship with yourself is where it needs to be.
Unknown
15.) For every new relationship, there’s at least another new broken heart.
Ryan Barber
16.) Take your time because relationships that start fast end fast.
Unknown
17.) New love may soar and plummet as it ebbs and flows, but what remains are the things we’ve discovered about each other. I’d do it all again because it led us to this love we share today.
Robin Raven
18.) All I know is that you’re the nicest thing I’ve ever seen; I wish we could see if we could be something.
Kate Nash
19.) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll
20.) New love can heal lost love, but it cannot make you forget.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
21.) Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey – More from Oprah
New Love Sayings
22.) One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
Susan Cain
23.) New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.
April Mae Monterrosa
24.) It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25.) Since I met you, I started to understand why all my past relationships ended so that we could start.
Robin Raven
26.) Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou
27.) The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
28.) There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Sarah Dessen
29.) Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
30.) The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
31.) I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride, so I love you because I know no other way.
Pablo Neruda
32.) Trust is the fruit on a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William Paul Young
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Funny Relationship Sayings
33.) The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
E. Joseph Cossman
34.) That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.
Jim Baker
35.) My wife and I were happy for 20 years – then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield
36.) Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
37.) Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.
Nora Ephron
38.) Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx
39.) Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
Albert Einstein
40.) If we take matrimony at its lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
41.) The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.
Linda Festa
42.) What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn’t understand math.
Mike Birbiglia
43.) Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.
Richard Jeni
44.) Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
45.) If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.
Benjamin Franklin
46.) A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
Lucille Ball
47.) I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
Relationship Quotes For Him
48.) Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
Veronica Roth
49.) When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.
Steve Maraboli (See more Jealousy Quotes and Sayings)
50.) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
51.) For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
Stephanie Perkins
52.) Like the bees which keep collecting honey, you take a piece of me every day. I am so enchanted by your sweet smile and your loving affection that I will never be able to let go.
Ella Milch
53.) Flowers swing by the breeze that blows in the evening just like your love makes me dance, sing, and get excited each and every day.
Jenna Stark
54.) I don’t need a reason to love you, just like I don’t need a reason to believe that God and love exist. All I need to do is love you more and more and more each day.
Melanie Wayne
55.) I like the fact that you are funny and good-looking. But the best thing I love about you is that you care so much for me and feel like a million dollars.
Diana Jordan
56.) If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy.
Bob Marley
For Her
57.) No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.
Marilyn Monroe
58.) I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.
Pocahontas
59.) One day, you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without and find that breath is of little consequence.
Karen Marie Moning
60.) I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
61.) Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
A.A. Milne
62.) I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keep little photographs of.
Charles Bukowski
63.) So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coehlo
64.) You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having.
Simone Elkeles
65.) If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred Tennyson
66.) 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
67.) The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
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Best Relationship Quotes
68.) To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
Domenico Cieri Estrada
69.) Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
70.) Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Lao Tzu
71.) I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest—it doesn’t exist.
Richard Gere
72.) That ‘Love never means you have to say sorry’ stuff doesn’t cut it. Say sorry, forgive, and forget.
Andy Atticus
73.) Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
74.) Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won’t cry, lips that won’t lie, and love that won’t die.
Wiz Khalifa
75.) The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
Henry Cloud
76.) A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
77.) We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, and persistence.
Cornel West
Strong Relationship Quotes
78.) The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
Alexandra Penney
79.) When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller
80.) Real giving is when we give to our spouses what’s important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
Michele Weiner-Davis
81.) After a while, you just want to be with the one who makes you laugh.
Mr. Big
82.) Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.
Unknown
83.) It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
84.) Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler
85.) You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
Elizabeth Gilbert
86.) Sexiness wears thin after a while, and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
87.) The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
Celebrating Love Quotes
88.) Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane Austen
89.) Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.
Margaret Mead
90.) No road is long with good company.
Turkish Proverb
91.) You come to love not by finding the perfect person but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
92.) Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
93.) You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you.
Bob Marley
94.) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
95.) Trust is the fruit on a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William Paul Young
96.) Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
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Real Love Quotes
97.) You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus
98.) Deep in your wounds are seeds waiting to grow beautiful flowers.
Niti Majethia
99.) Happily Ever After is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.
Fawn Weaver
100.) A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
101.) Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
102.) You’re my reflection; all I see is you.
Justin Timberlake
103.) A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo F. Buscaglia
104.) A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
Movie Relationship Quotes
105.) The most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself.
Carrie Bradshaw
106.) When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Harry from When Harry Harry Met Sally
107.) You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
108.) After a while, you just want to be with the one who makes you laugh.
Mr. Big
109.) The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Moulin Rouge
110.) Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.
Mac (J.K. Simmons), from Juno
111.) Wherever she is, that’s where my home is.
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Long Distance Relationship Quotes
112.) Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime.
Mario Puzo
113.) Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
114.) The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
115.) Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
116.) Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
117.) The pain of parting is nothing compared to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
Best Love Quotes
118.) I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
JRR Tolkien
119.) All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
120.) There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
121.) True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
122.) Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
123.) We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike
Heartwarming Relationship Quotes
124.) There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
125.) I fell in love with the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars”
126.) At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
127.) Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Nicole Krauss
128.) If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust, if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
Miles Davis
129.) You are my greatest adventure.
The Incredibles
130.) Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
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