180 Great Relationship Quotes

Following is our list of great relationship quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about amazing relationship.

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Famous Great Relationship Quotes

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate. — Rick Derringer

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone. — Harold Ramis

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having. — Sherry Argov

Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen. — Bo Sanchez

Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results. — Keith Sweat

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. — James Levine

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends. - Bill Walsh

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends. — Bill Walsh

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person. — Eric Braeden

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust. — Beau Mirchoff

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. — Amy Grant

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. — Jeph Jacques

If you are happy in life right now, it’s not because everything about your life is necessarily young right, but because a relationship that really matters to you the most is going great. — Mahatria Ra

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. — Greta Scacchi

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone. — Alain de Botton

Short Great Relationship Quotes

  • A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes. — Tony Gaskins
  • If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life. — Eckhart Tolle
  • Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. — Mike Murdock
  • The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good. — Miles J. Stanford
  • Working with great people is one of the best parts of life. — Sam Altman
  • The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. — W. Edwards Deming
  • Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential. — Joyce Meyer
  • It's always good to marry your best friend. — Marie Curie
  • A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault
  • Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person. — Eric Butterworth

Top 10 Great Relationship Quotes

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. — Voltaire

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements — Audrey Hepburn

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson

Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory. — Tim Fargo

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. — Tony Robbins

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. — Sharon Stone

Great Relationship Image Quotes

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. - Laura Schlessinger quote

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. — Laura Schlessinger

Great relationship quote Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a source of great strength.

Good Relationship Quotes

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. — Martin Luther

Great relationship quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not. — Henry Cloud

Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne

Great relationship quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. — Frederick Buechner

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen

Amazing Relationship Quotes

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal. — John Grogan

Beautiful people do not just happen — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy. — James Altucher

Great relationship quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you. — Rachael Ray

I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay. — Francis Chan

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step. — Sharon Olds

Great relationship quote The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.

That amazing moment when your crush has a crush on you. It's a wonderful feeling knowing that the person who you want to be in a relationship with likes or loves you back. — Piers Morgan

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other. — Neil Simon

If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about. — Srikumar Rao

It's amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher. — Joel Osteen

Strong Relationship Quotes

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

EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world. — Claudio Reyna

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity. — Brian Tracy

Great relationship quote When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.

The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities. — Mark Parker

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain

We seek the fulfillment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. — Oliver Burkeman

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die. - Bo Sanchez

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die. — Bo Sanchez

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. — Nicholas Sparks

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships. — Lara Pulver

Deep Relationship Quotes

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking. — T. D. Jakes

I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. — Nel Noddings

Great relationship quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world. — Pablo Casals

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The last 200 years of your ancestry, contain 127 romantic relationships, each involving at least one critical sex moment and most of them probably involving deep love. You’re the product of 127 romances, just in the last 200 years alone. — Tim Urban

Great relationship quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love. — Charles Stanley

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything. — Thomas Keating

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong

I think if you look at the friends, the kinds of relationships I have, I am not the kind of guy who has many shallow relationships. I think you could say I am the kind of guy who has a few relationships, but those are very deep. — Ichiro Suzuki

Happy Relationship Quotes

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself. — Tony Gaskins

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey

Great relationship quote Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. — Christopher McCandless

Great relationship quote God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. — Cornel West

Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Buddha

Perfect Relationship Quotes

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. — Hugh Mackay

When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. — Yasmin Mogahed

Great relationship quote To a great mind, nothing is little.
To a great mind, nothing is little.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. — Stephen Covey

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. — George Bernard Shaw

You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other. — Drake

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection. — Giorgio Agamben

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual? — Sue Johanson

I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it. — Drake

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. — Tony Robbins

Love Relationship Quotes

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

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. — Unknown Author

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright

To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving. — Mother Teresa

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 Buscaglia

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas

Relationship Long Term Quotes

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks

Instant gratification is the kiss of death. That mindset hurts anything it touches. Business, health, politics, friendship, relationship, finances. It attracts short-term thinkers and is turned off by long-term thinkers. Don't fall for this trap. — Patrick Bet-David

Play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest. — Naval Ravikant

If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day. — Naval Ravikant

Play long-term games with long-term people. — Naval Ravikant

Putting your company’s purpose at the foundation of your relationships with your stakeholders is critical to long-term success. — Larry Fink

I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it. — Michael Kirby

In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities. — Henry Sy

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. — Harriet Lerner

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. — Paul Bloom

Relationship Trust Quotes

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship. — Mike Paul

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. — Stephen Covey

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman

Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people. — Bruce D. Perry

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind — Waris Dirie

The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. — Mark Manson

Love cannot live where there is no trust. - Edith Hamilton

Love cannot live where there is no trust. — Edith Hamilton

You can't waste your life in insecure relationships. Either trust each other 100% or leave. — Steven Bartlett

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech. — Chris Brown

Healthy Relationship Quotes

Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy. — Nizar Qabbani

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. — Bruce D. Perry

How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk? — Gary Smalley

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV. — George Lopez

Why do ppl think shredded abs = health? It you are grumpy, fatigued, & have a bad relationship with food but have abs are you truly healthy? — Layne Norton

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life – like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth – they all have big opportunity costs. — Mark Manson

By changing our inner game, we can change the outer game to produce mutual satisfaction and healthy relationships. — William Ury

You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett

If you learn how to learn, it’s the ultimate meta skill and I believe you can learn how to be healthy, you can learn how to be fit, you can learn how to be happy, you can learn how to have good relationships, you can learn how to be successful. — Naval Ravikant

A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity. — Mandy Hale

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More Great Relationship Quotes

I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they’ve never been born again. — Adrian Rogers

The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu

The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now. — Marshall Goldsmith

I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone. — Elizabeth Banks

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal. — Sherrie Levine

He that cannot obey, cannot command. — Benjamin Franklin

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency. — John Owen

The great artists throughout history are the ones able to maintain this childlike enthusiasm and exuberance naturally. Just as an infant is selfish, they’re protective of their art in a way that’s not always cooperative. Their needs as a creator come first. Often at the expense of their personal lives and relationships. — Rick Rubin

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. — Ken Robinson

If you are happy in life right now, it's not because everything about your life is necessarily going right, but because a relationship that really matters to you the most is going great. If you are unhappy in life right now, it's not because everything about your life is going wrong, but because a relationship that really matters to you the most is not going great. — Mahatria Ra

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. — H. Ross Perot

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. — Steve Jobs

The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that. — Brian Houston

A successful hostage negotiator has to get everything he asks for, without giving anything back of substance, and do so in a way that leaves the adversaries feeling as if they have a great relationship. His work is emotional intelligence on steroids. — Chris Voss

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel

I've had a great relationship with Fox since Day 1. Fox was the network that I wanted to be on. — Dana White

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment. — Naoto Fukasawa

True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships. — Jeffrey R. Holland

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. — Shmuley Boteach

I’ve been in relationships in the past where communication wasn’t great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other. — Hannah Bronfman

I want to have a great open relationship with our press. — Kellyanne Conway

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do. — Johnnetta B. Cole

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. — Anne Geddes

Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently...a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise. — Shahzia Sikander

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. — Rick Warren

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few. — George Washington

Of all the great works that we can experience, nature is the most absolute and enduring. We can witness it change through the seasons. We can see it in the mountains, the oceans, the deserts, and the forest. We can watch the changes of the moon each night, and the relationship between the moon and the stars. — Rick Rubin

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there. — Julia Roberts

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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