125 Best Quotes About Marriage and Relationships

1. “Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Great happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships. ” — Gary Chapman

2. “Most males are thinking that half of a child they've made belongs to them. But that's just wrong. Because they give only half of a plan for building the baby, and all the rest is done by mama alone. So, guys: think twice before saying "The half of this child is mine.” 

3. “Whatever problems arise in a romantic relationship, it’s important to face them together as a couple. If an aspect of the relationship stops working, don’t simply ignore it, but instead address it with your partner. Things change, so respond to them together as they do. ” -Anne Nwakama

4.  More than the “act” of repentance, the LORD desires our hearts. That is the purpose of repentance. It’s not a ritual to fulfill empty requirements. The purpose is to have God’s people’s hearts return to God’s desired state; Communion with God. Repentance is the tool by which to return to Heart-to-heart communion with God. – Tom Otiende

5. Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together.

6. “I can’t control your behavior, nor do I want that burden…but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out. ” — Steve Maraboli

7. “The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little ‘extra’ every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.” – Fawn Weaver

8.  “50% of a great relationship is how you treat someone. The other 50% is having the ability and confidence to communicate the treatment you want in return.” — Matthew Hussey

9. “When being in a toxic relationship in life at times you may have to step outside yourself, to see yourself, so you can find yourself and love yourself again. ” – Angel Moreira

10.  “Don’t rush into any relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself, and love yourself. Do this first, and you will soon attract that special loving other. ” – Russ Von Hoelscher

11. “Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn, presented once again. So, where you made a faulty choice before, you can now make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. ” – A Course In Miracles

12. “Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon. ” – Robert Breault

13.  “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. ” — Anthony Robbins

14. “When you find someone you can truly love, you will fight to keep that relationship. No matter what obstacles you both will face, you will never give up on each other. You may get lost along the way, but one of you always keeps catch the other. Soon one day both of you will have each other’s backs. ” -Jenna Bognar

15.  “Compromises in business can be beneficial, but not in relationships, and compromise can be a good shield but not a good roof. It is important to maintain every relationship with love from the heart.”

16. “Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will. ” – Mandy Hale, ‘The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass’

17.  “Regardless of how awful the relationship is.!! Just never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, because, regardless of how filthy the water is.! If you’re not thirsty, the fire will go out.!”

18. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. ” – Shannon L. Alder

19. Your marriage is like a garden, if you let it grow unattended it will reach its full potential, but if you tend to it daily the flowers will bloom brighter, the fruit will be sweeter and the smell of success will fill your life.

20. “We all have that toxic people around us that make our lives miserable… The day we take them out from our lives, we will all become better people; including them…”― Rodolfo Peon

21. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. ’” – Joel Osteen, 

22. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. ” – Shannon L. Alder

23. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses ~Ann Landers

24. “He wasn't entirely surprised to wake up the next morning with Sjurd pressed against his back, but was still cross enough to roll straight out of bed and go down to a solitary breakfast (because trying to stab his new husband through the throat with the butter knife would not have convinced anyone that the match was secure).” 

25. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. ” – C. JoyBell C

26. “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.” – Barbara De Angelis

27.  “Every happy couple has two people behind them who have worked tirelessly to conquer all challenges and interferences to get to where they are now. What is the reason for this? And that’s what they asked for.”

28.  “You can’t just abandon someone because the circumstances aren’t ideal. Great relationships do not exist because they are without flaws. They’re fantastic because both people care about each other enough to figure out a way to make it work.” — Unknown

29. “Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people “no darn good any way”. People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn’t hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again. ” -Henry Cloud

30. “Relationships last long not because they’re destined to last long. Relationships last long because two brave people made a choice. To keep it, fight for it and to work for it. ” – Unknown

31. You can’t change your partner. You can only change yourself. If you want something in your marriage to change, show your partner through action that things will be different

32. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”

33. “I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past. ” – Cameron Dokey, ‘The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan’

34. “Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out. ” – Alessandra Torre

35. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. ” – Nicholas Sparks

36. “In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love. So what do you do? You do the acts of love, despite your lack of feeling.

37.  “The distance was felt when I said. I’m good, and he decided! Relationships never die of old age. They are still killed by people, out of malice. Neglect, and sometimes confusion, just to enrage others.”

38. “50% of a great relationship is how you treat someone. The other 50% is having the ability and confidence to communicate the treatment you want in return.” — Matthew Hussey

39. “Of course happy couples fight! Two strong minds coming together are never going to agree on everything, and it’s healthy to express those feelings. But what we had to learn was that it was the way we were expressing our feelings that wasn’t healthy. Shouting doesn’t make anyone feel better. Storming off doesn’t fix any problems.” 

40. “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”

41.  “You can’t just give up on someone just because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people care about the other person to find a way to make it work. ”

42. I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you. ’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. ” – Maya Angelou

43. “Most males are thinking that half of a child the made belongs to them. But that's just wrong. Because they give only half of a plan for building the baby, and all the rest is done by mama alone. So, guys: think twice before saying "The half of this child is mine."

44. “Love is not how you forget but how you forgive. Not how you listen but how you understand. Not what you see but how you feel. And not how you let go but how you hold on. ” – Unknown

45.  “Whatever problems emerge in an intimate relationship, they must be addressed as a couple. If something in your relationship isn’t working, don’t dismiss it; alternatively, talk to your partner about it. Things shift, so be ready to answer to them all at once.”

46. “Great marriages don’t happen by luck or by accident. They are the result of a consistent investment of time, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, affection, prayer, mutual respect, and a rock-solid commitment between a husband and a wife.” – Dave Willis

47. “Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. ” — Wiston Auden

48. ” In any serious relationship, if you don’t gather your partner’s opinion before making a decision that impacts you both, you’re just storing up trouble for the future. ” – Cindy Woodsmall

49. “Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It is not rude. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. ” – 1 Corinthians 13:4

50. “The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. New wine cannot be put into old bottles, for the Bible states that the old bottles will break. You intuitively know what should depart from your life.”

51. “Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. ” – Jean-Yves Leloup

52. “Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re underappreciated. ” – Steve Maraboli

53.  “Relationships last long not because they’re destined to last long. Relationships last long because two brave people made a choice. To keep it, fight for it and to work for it. ”

54. The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church, or synagogue. It’s a choice you make—not just on your wedding day, but over and over again—and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife

55. “There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience. ”― Anthon St. Maarten

56. But when you are able to work through a marriage, you come out stronger on the other side… well, you will never quite know how strong you really are until you have to dig deep and push through some serious adversity.

57.  Things don’t change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it. – Henry Cloud and John Townsend

58. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. ” – Barbara De Angelis

59. “If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you’re going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes. ” – Curtis Jackson

60. “Your partner may have injuries that you can't repair. Your partner may be trapped in a dark room without windows. Your life narrative might bring him more relief than an opiate. Some people make better windows than windows. Your kind words and enlightened perspective is a window of wonders to someone living in pain.” 

61. “We are responsible for our own relationships, their success, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire. ” – Sam Owen

62. “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life

63. “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest…” – H. P. Lovecraft

64.  “Every relationship needs an argument every now and then. Just to prove that it is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. ” -Melchor Lim

65.  You are a walk-on-water kind of God and that’s where You want me to walk with you today. No boats, no bridges, no swimming.  No drowning! Only Your arms guiding and empowering me to stay with You above the waves…because I am a walk-on-water kind of gal! – Beth Steffaniak  

66. The success of a marriage is in the loving – it isn’t in the result of loving. Of course, it’s natural in marriage to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not, it does not determine the value of what we have done

67.  “Relationships endure for a long time, not that they are destined to. Relationships endure for a long time when two courageous people want to be together. To keep it, to fight for it, and to put forth the effort to keep it.”

68. “Don’t rush into any relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself, and love yourself. Do this first, and you will soon attract that special loving other.” – Russ Von Hoelscher

69.  Marriage is meant to keep people together, not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That’s why we take marriage vows, not wishes. – Ngina Otiende

70. “You can’t just give up on someone because the situation’s not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work.”

71. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close. ” – Pablo Neruda

72.  “There is no challenge strong enough to destroy your marriage as long as you are both willing to stop fighting against each other, and start fighting for each other. ” – Dave Willis

73. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love. ” – Robert Fulghum

74.  “People are said to stay in love because of chemistry, or because they are fascinated by each other, or because of many acts of kindness, or because of chance. Although forgiveness and gratitude must be a part of it.”

75. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. ” – Deborah Reber, ‘Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul’

76. “Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be. ” – C. JoyBell C

77. “Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.”

78.  “Trials are simply reminders of lessons you missed the first time around. So, where you previously made a poor decision, you will now make a positive one and avoid the agony that your previous decision caused you.”

79. “Don’t rush into any relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself, and love yourself. Do this first, and you soon attract that special loving other.” – Russ Von Hoelscher

80.  “Every relationship causes a fall out now and then. Perhaps to show that it can survive. It’s all about weathering the peaks and lows in long-term relationships that matter.”

81. “Sometimes it takes heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. ” – Mandy Hale, ‘The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass’

82. “Trouble in a marriage,” he later wrote, “is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don’t realize it’s up there, but it gets heavier and heavier, until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head.” 

83. “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued by each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ” – Ellen Goodman

84.  If a fellow believer hurts you, go and tell him—work it out between the two of you. If he listens, you’ve made a friend. If he won’t listen, take one or two others along so that the presence of witnesses will keep things honest, and try again. If he still won’t listen, tell the church. If he won’t listen to the church, you’ll have to start over from scratch, confront him with the need for repentance, and offer again God’s forgiving love.  Mathew 18:15 – 17 (The Message Bible)

85.  A relationship when held loosely with respect and freedom for the other person is likely to remain intact. But when held too tightly, too possessively, it slips away and is lost. ” — Kaleel Jamison

86. “Don’t be afraid to let go of this acquired, invented identity; this false feeling of ‘I.’ That is like being afraid to let go of a headache. That is what the imaginary ‘I’ is—one great big headache.”

87. “We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don’t have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.”

88.  “You would fight to maintain a relationship with someone you really love. You will never give up on each other, no matter what challenges you face. You might get separated along the way, but one of you will always find the other. One day, you will both have each other’s backs.”

89. “Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?” — Donna Lynn Hope

90.  “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. ” — Anthony Robbins

91. “No one can dance with a partner and not touch each other’s raw spots. We must know what these sensitive, raw spots are and be able to speak about them in a way that pulls our partner closer to us.” ― Sue Johnson

92.  “Obstacles in life get the best of a person from time to time. When two people experience obstacles separately, it leaves little room to help each other. This does not mean the relationship failed because you did not try hard enough, obstacles aren’t always conquered in general. ” – Kimberly Danner

93.  “You can’t ever give up on someone when things aren’t going well. Great relationships do not exist unless they are without problems. They’re fantastic and everyone wants to make things work for the other guy.”

94. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. ” – Criss Jami, ‘Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile’

95. “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” — Anthony Robbins

96.  “Don’t rush into any relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself, and love yourself. Do this first, and you will soon attract that special loving other. ” – Russ Von Hoelscher

97.  “The more insecure you are about yourself or your relationship, the more jealous you are, because you are afraid to lose your significant other to someone else. ” – Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can’t Be Friends

98. “You can’t just give up on someone just because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people care about the other person to find a way to make it work. ” -Unknown

99.  “Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength. ” -Unknown

100. “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

101. “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. ” – Anthony Robbins

102. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. ” — Catherine Ponder

103. “If you’re giving love and not receiving it, you’re not in the right relationship. If you’re receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person. ” — Patti Stanger

104. “Friendship fuels the flames of romance because it offers the best protection against feeling adversarial toward your spouse.” – John Gottman, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

105. “His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a “forgettery” instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before.” 

106. “There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.”

107. “For all the largesse of my mind’s colony where a vividly enflamed man would take off each of the precious stones and melt away the cast, his success ultimately lay in being nice to me, being nice to himself irrespective of the behavior of each; of being proud of me and of himself irrespective of worldly success; holding me in regard with an almost primitive sense of courage, irrespective of the purity of my body or spirit.” 

108. In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a spouse, a friend, a companion, a second self.

109. “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ” – Ellen Goodman

110. “You can’t possibly embrace that new relationship, that new companion, that new career, that new friendship, or that new life you want, while you’re still holding on to the baggage of the last one. Let go… and allow yourself to embrace what is waiting for you right at your feet.”

111.  “You don’t have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future. ” – Jane Green

112. “Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically. ” -Kemi Sogunle

113. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in. ” – Katherine Mansfield

114. “Friends do not cast shade in order to shine. Remember that. I used to put up with my closest friends throwing shade all the time, because, I WANTED THEM TO SHINE. But then I learned that when you give other people, the space to shine at your own expense, you’re slowly committing suicide. True friends mutually desire the other to shine without the need to cast shade or throw the other under a bus. ” -C. Joybell C

115.  “The idea that most people start a relationship to get something: they’re looking for someone who can make them feel happy is one of the most difficult aspects of relationships. In fact, the only way a relationship can survive is if you see it as a place where you go to give rather than a place where you go to take.”

116. “I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose. ” – Rita Rudner

117. “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (ESV)

118.  “You must watch this video if you want to learn how to have a stable relationship. Joanne Davila, a psychologist and writer, explains how to work with relationships to make them healthier in this article.”

119. “That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. ” – Robyn Schneider, ‘Extraordinary Means’

120. “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

121. “Behind every happy couple lies two people who have fought hard to overcome all obstacles and interferences to be that way. Why? Because it’s what they wanted. ” – Kim George

122. “Some think love can be measured by the number of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘forever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.” — Marian Keyes

123. “Semua yang kukritik mengenai perkawinan bersumber dari satu hal. Yaitu, tidak setaranya relasi antara perempuan dan laki-laki. Di luar perkawinan, perempuan mendapat tekanan sangat besar untuk menikah. Tapi di dalam perkawinan, ia ditempatkan dalam posisi subordinat. Lelaki menjadi pemimpin.” 

124. “And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed. ” – Sarah Waters, ‘The Little Stranger’

125. “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” – Colossians 3:12-14 (ESV)