Relationship Quotes
Relationships are one of life’s greatest gifts to hummanity. Establishing and maintaining healthy relationships is one of the most important things we’ll do in our lives.
Whether your relationships are based on romance, friendship or family ties, building a healthy and long lasting relationship requires patience, commitment, love and the willingness to forgive easily.
Read through our collection of relationship quotes and sayings. These quotes will help you rekindle the flame in your relationship.
60 Lovely Relationship Quotes & Sayings
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde
“You can’t just give up on someone because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships are not great because they have no problems. They are great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work.” – Unknown
“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
“Relationships end too soon because people stop putting in the same effort to keep you, as they did to win you.” – Unknown
“He can’t read your mind. So take a moment to let him know how you really feel.”
“Apologizing does not mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.”
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” – Henry Winkler
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
“All relationships go through hell, real ones get through it.” – Unknown
“We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” – Cornel West
“A perfect relationship is not perfect, it’s just that both people never gave up.” – Unknown
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ― Jess C. Scott
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” ― Donald Miller
“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
“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
“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus
“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” – Alexandra Penney
“A great relationship doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end.” – Unknown
“A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person.” – Unknown
“If you don’t value yourself, then you will always be attracted to people who don’t value you either.” – Unknown
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”— Carl W. Buechner
“Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.” – Unknown
“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.” – Stephanie Klein
“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” – Hugh Mackay
“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
“Whether it is a friendship or a relationship, all bonds are built on trust. Without it, you have nothing.” – Unknown
“Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside.” – Sarah Dessen
“To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.” – Doménico Cieri Estrada
“A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other.” – Unknown
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.” – Albert Schweitzer
“A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.” – Unknown
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” – Gloria Steinem
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”— Joseph F. Newton
When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.”― Catherine Gilbert Murdock
“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.” – Nick Hornby
“Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.” – B. R. Ambedkar
“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
“Relationships are worth fighting for, but you can’t be the only one fighting.” – Unknown
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“Lose your pride for your love. But never lose your love just because of your pride.” – Unknown
“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale—it’s a choice.” – Fawn Weaver
“All relationships have one law. Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.” – Unknown
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”— Miles Franklin
“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
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.” – Dinah Shore
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.” – Sarah Dessen
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson Gentry
“It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.” – Todd Ruthman
“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
“When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” – Keith Sweat
“Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.” – Mike Murdock
“Do what you did in the beginning of the relationship and there won’t be an end.” – Anthony Robbins
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard—they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.” – Greta Scacchi
“Find a heart that will love you at your worst and arms that will hold you at your weakest.” – Unknown
“Relationships include: fights, jealousy, arguments, faith, tears, disagreements, but a real relationship fights through all that with love.” – Unknown
“Don’t take your frustrations out on your partner. They should be the one person you can go to and feel at peace.” – Unknown
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn