Top 50 Relationship Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

— Bob Marley

2. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”

— Donald Miller

3. “A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves.”

— Greg Behrendt

4. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

— C.G. Jung

5. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”

— Marilyn Monroe

6. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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7. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

— Mitch Albom

8. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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9. “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”

— Candace Bushnell

10. “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

11. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

— André Breton

12. “When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”

— Steve Maraboli

13. “One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”

— Douglas Coupland

14. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

— Henry Winkler

15. “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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16. “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

17. “All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”

— Marilyn Monroe

18. “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”

— Wm. Paul Young

19. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

— Jess C. Scott

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20. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

— Jane Austen

21. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

— Maya Angelou

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22. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”

— Johnny Depp

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23. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

— Lucille Ball

24. “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”

— Charlie Chaplin

25. “The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.”

— O. A. Battista

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26. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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27. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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28. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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29. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

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30. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

— Mark Twain

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31. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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32. “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.”

— Dale Carnegie

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33. “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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34. “He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”

— George Herbert

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35. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

— Maya Angelou

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36. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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37. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

— Bertrand Russell

38. “To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

— Mary Oliver

39. “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

— James Thurber

40. “Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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41. “Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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42. “One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”

— Jim Rohn

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43. “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 R. Covey

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44. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

— Elie Wiesel

45. “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

— Anthony Burgess

46. “If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”

— Bruce Barton

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47. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

— William James

48. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

— Henry David Thoreau

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49. “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

— Michael Jackson

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50. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

— Ayn Rand