The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. — W. Edwards Deming
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. — Greta Scacchi
It takes longer to build a relationship than it does to destroy one. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Ouida
The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive — Mike Murdock
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
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. — Andre Maurois
A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes. — Tony Gaskins
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
Play long-term games with long-term people. — Naval Ravikant
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. — James Levine
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. — A. P. Herbert
Long distance tells you a horse's real strength; Time tells you a person's true heart. — Changpeng Zhao
Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships — Ruskin Bond
Short Long Relationship Quotes
It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate. — Rick Derringer
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. — Joseph Parry
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. — Domenico Cieri
A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure. — J. Paul Getty
Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen. — Bo Sanchez
People and relationships never stop being a work in progress — Nora Roberts
The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love. — Brian Houston
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind. — Jackie Robinson
The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good. — Miles J. Stanford
Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die. — Bo Sanchez
Top 10 Long Relationship Quotes
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. — Jeph Jacques
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
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
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last? — Jacque Fresco
Long Relationship Image Quotes
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Life Long Relationship Quotes
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. — Rick Warren
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
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
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
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
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance. — Joel Osteen
I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more. — Mary Borden
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union — Rollo May
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. — Mike Fitzpatrick
Distance Long Relationship Quotes
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long. — Sappho
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. — Vita Sackville-West
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you. — Nicholas Sparks
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance. — Anthony Hopkins
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
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. — Ian Mckellen
I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships. — Calista Flockhart
I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.
There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting. — John Friend
I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits. — Dick Cheney
The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately. — Holly Madison
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without. — Holland Taylor
Love Long Relationship Quotes
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. — W. Somerset Maugham
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? — Aberjhani
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks
Show respect even to people who don't deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart — Helen Keller
It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does. — Peter McWilliams
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. — Nicholas Sparks
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. — Charles M. Schulz
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. — Francoise Sagan
Sad Long Relationship Quotes
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. — Unknown Author
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. — Haruki Murakami
What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. — Margaret Mitchell
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down. — Shane Johnson
But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. — Daniel Handler
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him — H. L. Mencken
The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong
I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last — Nicholas Sparks
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. — Megan McCafferty
Long Distance Relationship Quotes
When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come. — Oprah Winfrey
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — John Dryden
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall — George Fetherling
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. — Paul Valery
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. — Andrew Davidson
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin
Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho
I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Long Distance Relationship Love Quotes
Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks — Amit Abraham
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. — Rick Warren
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. — George Eliot
If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see...Believe And I'm always there. — Jon Oliva
One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you. — Robert Dodsley
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have. — John Green
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) — E. E. cummings
Separation is not the end of love; it creates love. — Nancy Friday
Inspiring Long Distance Relationship Quotes
Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning. — Henri Nouwen
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. — Daniel Handler
Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. — David Levithan
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you — Richard Marx
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. — Aristotle
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Long Lasting Relationship Quotes
When you think something nice about someone, tell them right then. It's a tiny habit that will pay long-lasting dividends. — Sahil Bloom
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
I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it. — Jennifer Beals
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. — Carson Daly
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence. — Leslie Morgan Steiner
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. — Chelsea Handler
I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly. — Al Pacino
All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime. — Bell Hooks
The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly. — Zoe Lister-Jones
A relationship is like a rose,How long it lasts, no one knows;Love can erase an awful past,Love can be yours, you'll see at last;To feel that love, it makes you sigh,To have it leave, you'd rather die;You hope you've found that special rose,'Cause you love and care for the one you chose. — Rob Cella
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever. — Florence King
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. — African Proverbs
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
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like — James Taylor
My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time. — Nina Dobrev
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy. — Kate Millett
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord. — N. T. Wright
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. — Meg Ryan
Putting your company’s purpose at the foundation of your relationships with your stakeholders is critical to long-term success. — Larry Fink
The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids. — Michael Ian Black
I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you. — Dorothy Parker
Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well. — Kate Middleton
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