Top 100 Relationship Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best relationship quotes ever written, picked out of the full relationship archive on QuoteForever. You will find Jess C Scott, Drake, Esther Hicks and Jim Rohn among them.

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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. - Ken Kesey 1

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

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Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

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A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.

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Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

5

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

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If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

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For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

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It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

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Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

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It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

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If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

13

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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I never say "nagging". I think that "nagging" is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

16

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

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Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

19

I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

20

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

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In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

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Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

24

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

25

Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

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I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

27

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

28

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

29

After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.

30

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

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If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

32

Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.

33

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

34

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

35

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

36

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

37

The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.

38

A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

39

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

40

I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

41

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

42

I bet if I give all my love then nothing's gonna tear us apart.

43

I heard it's nothin new except for someone new but how you s'posed to find the one when anyone'll come with you?

44

I'm more than just a number. I doubt you'll find another

45

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

46

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

47

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

48

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

49

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

50

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

51

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

52

It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

53

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

54

I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.

55

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

56

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

57

The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.

58

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

59

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

60

Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.

61

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

62

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

63

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

64

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

65

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

66

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

67

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

68

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.

69

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

70

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

71

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

72

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

73

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

75

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

76

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

77

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

78

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

79

Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try anymore.

80

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

81

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

82

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

83

He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

84

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

85

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

86

My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you're in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don't fix.

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She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

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Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.

89

I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

90

My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism.

91

Please, touch me, I pray.

92

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

93

V-Day...if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for "your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

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The dating process is not normal for me.

95

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

96

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

97

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

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How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

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Somebody's gonna give you A lesson in leavin' Somebody's gonna give you back What you've been givin' And I hope that I'm around To watch 'em knock you down It's like you to love'em and leave'em Just like you loved me and left me It's like you to do that sort of thing Over and over again You're a fool-hearted man.

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A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

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