Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own. — Deb Caletti
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren't being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves. — Dave Willis
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other. — Dave Willis
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. — Frank Pittman
A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection. — Dallin H. Oaks
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal. — Frank Pittman
To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction. — Diane Greene
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut
Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses. — James Dobson
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Short Strong Marriage Quotes
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. — Simone de Beauvoir
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. — Mario Puzo
A good marriage is a contest of generosity. — Diane Sawyer
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott
The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good. — Miles J. Stanford
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. — Confucius
Strong Marriage Image Quotes
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Strong Love Marriage Quotes
Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another. — Harold Klemp
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength. — Timothy Keller
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. — Boris Pasternak
Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about.
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore — Jennifer E. Smith
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. — Johnny Vegas
Powerful Marriage Quotes
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. — J. K. Rowling
One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness. — Stormie Omartian
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Martin Luther
Never assume that loud is strong and quiet is weak.
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. — Byron Katie
Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage. — Richard G. Scott
If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people. — George Q. Cannon
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor. — Elizabeth Gilbert
When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis. — Warren Farrell
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage. — Richard G. Scott
What Makes A Good Marriage Quotes
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. — Anna Quindlen
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him. — P. G. Wodehouse
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser — Diana Gabaldon
I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better. — Emilie Loring
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
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem. — John M. Gottman
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.
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
A husband with a good wife will never be on the road without supplies. — African Proverbs
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. — H. L. Mencken
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight. — Paul Bloom
Healthy Marriage Quotes
I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong. — Joycelyn Elders
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise Hay
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world. — William J Doherty
A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.
It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet. — James Dobson
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
Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly. — Imogen Stubbs
The strongest the why, the easiest the how becomes.
Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. — Jennifer Crusie
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. — Ann Landers
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." — James Dobson
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
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success. — Storm Jameson
Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes you strong.
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much. — Colin Chapman
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win. — John Gray
you were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. — Harold Nicolson
The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe. — Denzel Washington
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. — Rita Rudner
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Wonderful Marriage Quotes
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? — Groucho Marx
For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me. — Fred Ebb
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. — Neil Simon
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. — Marilyn Monroe
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'. — Gordon Lightfoot
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. — Donald Johanson
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time. — Kim Wilde
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials. — Will Rogers
Marriage Life Quotes
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
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
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
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled
Positive Marriage Quotes
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — Mother Teresa
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience. — Warren Buffett
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me. — Celine Dion
Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already. — Dave Willis
Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men. — Dave Willis
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
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
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
Excellence does not come easily or quickly-- an excellent education does not, a successful mission does not, a strong, loving marriage does not, rewarding personal relationships do not. It is simply a truism that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience on our part. — Jeffrey R. Holland
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. — Jim Talent
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair. — Amy Bloom
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies. — Susan Sontag
Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling. — Fran Lebowitz
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted. — Bernadette Peters
[Strong marriage] starts with being married to a remarkable person. And I am. I jokingly say that I stood up in front of a crowd once and said, "Laura's the greatest first lady ever," and then realized my mother was in the audience. — George W. Bush
Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. — Nick Lampson
The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day. — William Bolitho
We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay? — Yvette Cooper
If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah. — Megan Fox
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour. — Will Cuppy
You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me. — Harry Connick, Jr.
Who cares if it's a campaign strategy, and who are other people to say it's ridiculous? I'm not gay, but I strongly support gay marriage. What if someone told you you couldn't marry the one you love? I think it's about time! Let people who love each other that are the same sex get married. They deserve the right to be happy also. — Barack Obama
Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family. — Betty Churcher
The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people. — Ken Mehlman
As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman. — Billy Graham
Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are important because they give women exit options, but property is as well. Give women equal property rights to inherited land, then they have an asset they can take out of the marriage. This gives husbands strong incentives to not beat them. — Martha C. Nussbaum
If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it. — Andrew Breitbart
If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists to the court, I'm the only candidate with that record. That's why conservatives are uniting behind our campaign. And if they want to continue with the attacks, that's their prerogative. — Ted Cruz
I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me. — Mariah Carey
If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children. — Joel Osteen
Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature. — Kahlil Gibran
Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong. — Bob Marley
Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles. — Jamie Lee Curtis
[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone. — Sarah Fielding
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it. — David Hume
Sarah Palin has strong opinions on the Libyans. She said, 'Marriage is between a man and a woman and Libyans like Rachel Maddow are what's ruining this country.' — Bill Maher
The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does. — Merle Shain
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it. — Carolyn Heilbrun
My basic political philosophy is, I ain't mad at that. Which basically means I don't have to have a strong opinion about everything. I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes I'm just not mad at it. Like, What do you think about gay marriage? I ain't mad at you, you're gay and you're married: I ain't mad at you, go do it. — Larry Wilmore
The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. — Ann Coulter
Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses. — Thomas a Kempis
Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority. — R. C. Sproul
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