Make Marriage Work Quotes

#1. I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

Stephanie Mills

#2. Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#3. A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

Nancy Pelosi

#4. I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Bethenny Frankel

#5. Commitment, I finally said. Both people have to be committed. I think if two people are committed to the marriage, if they really want to make it work, then they'll find a way to do it. No matter what happens in life.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

Hendrik Hertzberg

#7. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.

Dorianne Laux

#8. I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job."
"Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. Think of a Foundational tour as a form of marriage - a long-term relationship that both parties anticipate will be permanent, in which both parties assume a moral obligation to try hard to make it work before ending the relationship.

Reid Hoffman

#10. Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart

Martellis Thurmand

#11. Can't make marriage the be-all and end-all. Because if you do it won't work. Listen: from the looks of things we've got one of the few solid marriages around. But it took work, pussycat. Work.' Her eyes gleamed with the victory of that work, the necessity for it.

Andre Dubus

#12. Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.

Tracy Chevalier

#13. I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Sherri Shepherd

#14. At the end of the day
after work, after trying to spend some sort of meaningful time with Alice and Noomi
Georgie was usually too tired to make things right with Neal before they fell asleep. So things stayed wrong.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. When people come into the office and say they've tried to make their marriage work, and I hear what the effort was, it seems to me that there's some lack of understanding of what effort is.

Peter D. Kramer

#16. The deep feeling of oneness you have with someone when you've done all of the work on yourself you have to do to make a marriage work doesn't take away your independence. It frees you to be the person you actually are. It wipes away all that nasty ego stuff, and lets your soul shine through.

Kristin Newman

#17. Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#18. She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.

Anthony Kiedis

#19. Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn't work? Would that make you absolutely unhappy for the rest of your life? I would hope not.

Amy Stolls

#20. I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Helen Reddy

#21. Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

Sheryl Sandberg

#22. If only I had known that it takes a lot more than love to make a marriage work, then maybe our story would be different.

Mia Asher

#23. I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

J. Paul Getty

#24. It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

Malaika Arora Khan

#25. This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are trying either to make the marriage work or make the separation work. Our job is to make that interesting.

Rob Reiner

#26. When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.

Sarah Mlynowski

#27. I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.

Jonathan Silverman

#28. I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Faith Evans

#29. I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Kajol

#30. I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet.

Jennifer Lopez

#31. Tucker, to make anything work, from meat loaf to a marriage, there are two things you have to do. Forgive and continue.

M.E. Kerr

#32. To see two couples that are battling to make it work just shows that love is in a marriage, but there are also trials and things that you have to make it through and showing women and men how to keep it spicy.

Kyla Pratt

#33. Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.

Mae West

#34. It takes two to make a marriage work and two to make it fall apart.

Karen Kingsbury

#35. The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

Alexander Lowen

#36. To make matters worse, seemingly every book I read by Christians on sex and marriage sounded unfair. Nearly every one said the husband had to work very hard to understand his wife, to relate to her.

Mark Driscoll

#37. People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Mary Wesley

#38. Henry and I have always talked about partnership, working together to make things work. He's always said he'd never divorce. That divorced rich men are inevitably poor men. That any marriage can be fixed, that love fluctuates.

Kate Moretti

#39. Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.
Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence.

Honore De Balzac

#40. I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

Princess Diana