Top 30 New Relationship Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

— Dale Carnegie

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2. “Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”

— Bruce Lee

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3. “You only have one chance to make a first impression.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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4. “The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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5. “The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone’s needs.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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6. “Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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7. “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

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8. “One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to his opinion, to let him sustain his feeling of importance.”

— Dale Carnegie

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9. “Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”

— Brené Brown

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10. “Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.”

— Zig Ziglar

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11. “Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships.”

— John C. Maxwell

12. “Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.”

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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13. “Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.”

— Dale Carnegie

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14. “Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.”

— Eric Thomas

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15. “Become genuinely interested in other people.”

— Dale Carnegie

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16. “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.”

— Milan Kundera

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17. “Ignite, my love. Ignite.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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18. “We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.”

— Brené Brown

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19. “Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.”

— Virginia Satir

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20. “Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.”

— John C. Maxwell

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21. “Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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22. “Don’t look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.”

— Rumi

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23. “Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it’s not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.”

— Tony Hsieh

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24. “I’ve fallen for your eyes but they don’t know me yet.”

— Ed Sheeran

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25. “Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”

— Anaïs Nin

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26. “But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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27. “When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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28. “Integrity is important in building relationships and is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success, such as respect, dignity, and trust, are built.”

— John C. Maxwell

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29. “Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”

— Joyce Brothers

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30. “If they wanted to, they would.”

— QuoteFancy Wallpaper

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