Marriage & Partnership: Relationship Quotes

Explore thoughtful quotes about building and sustaining strong relationships within marriage and partnership. These selections highlight trust, empathy, patience, and shared growth, offering gentle prompts for reflection and connection. Whether you are celebrating a milestone or navigating challenges, find words that encourage open communication, mutual respect, and everyday gratitude. Use them to inspire conversation, renew commitments, and appreciate the small moments that keep love resilient.

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"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

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"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"Communication works for those who work at it"

John Powell, Composer

"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

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"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude"

William James, Philosopher

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"Men and women have strengths that complement each other"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

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"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt"

Pierre Trudeau, Statesman

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"It takes two flints to make a fire"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

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"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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"A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

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"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality"

Yoko Ono, Artist

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"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot"

John Cusack, Actor

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"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage"

Halle Berry, Actress

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"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us"

Tom Ford, Designer

"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe"

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"I never promised you a rose garden"

Traian Basescu, Politician

"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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"Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important"

Rob Reiner, Director

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"I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

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"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

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"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

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"Men and women, women and men. It will never work"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows"

Ben Stein, Actor

"I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet"

Megan Fox, Actress

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships"

Deborah Tannen, Sociologist

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"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone"

Deborah Tannen, Sociologist

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"I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business"

Diana Ross, Actress

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