Top 200 Relationship Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Emotional Quotes

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

— Donald Miller

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Quotes About People, Friends Quotes

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

— Greg Behrendt

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Effort Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes

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

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Personality Quotes, Important Quotes

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

— Marilyn Monroe

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Solitude Quotes

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Attitude Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

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

— Mitch Albom

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Healing Grief Quotes

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Passion Quotes

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

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Love Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

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

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Couple Quotes

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

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Couple Quotes

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

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Family Quotes, Quotes About Trust

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

— Jess C. Scott

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Love Life Quotes

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

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Character Quotes, Witty Quotes, Past Quotes

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

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Care Quotes

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

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Broken Heart Quotes

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

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Care Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women

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

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

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

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Marriage Quotes

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Peace Quotes

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Quotes About People

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

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Smile Quotes

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

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Inspiring Quotes

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

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Famous Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Morality Quotes

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Also featured in: Love You Quotes, Marriage Quotes

33. “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

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Real Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

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

— George Herbert

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes

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

— Bertrand Russell

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Live Life Quotes, Deep Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

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

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Meaningful Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

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

— James Thurber

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Witty Quotes

39. “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

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Loss Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

40. “We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.”

— Harville Hendrix

Also featured in: Love Is Quotes

41. “I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”

— Virginia Satir

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Unconditional Love Quotes

42. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Challenges Quotes

43. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Love You Quotes, Couple Quotes

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes

45. “Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you’re feeling. To have the hard conversations.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

46. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

47. “Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Affirmation Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

48. “We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Values Quotes

50. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes