Quotes About Compromise In A Marriage

#1. The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

Donna Ball

#2. Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

Gillian Flynn

#3. Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

Ayelet Waldman

#4. I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#5. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Phyllis McGinley

#6. If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.

Andrew Solomon

#7. The moral to the story being: Mr. Binks was a cheating dickweasel, but, you know, marriage is compromise.

Gillian Flynn

#8. If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Alexa Vega

#10. I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe in marriage and still have fantasies about it.

Brooke Hayward

#11. I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

Virginia Woolf

#12. Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

Candice Olson

#14. Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.

Margaret Mitchell

#15. Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

Thiruman Archunan

#16. Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.

Nicholas Sparks

#17. In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Tim Allen

#18. A big part of being in a relationship or marriage or whatever is you have to eventually compromise. Your life doesn't end up exactly the way you think it's going to, and if it's the right relationship, you might have to compromise what you're doing professionally.

Nicholas Stoller

#19. 7 Principles of a Happy Marriage

Always listen
Be there
Compromise is necessary
Build up trust
A kiss before sleep, a kiss after waking
Never keep score
Do things together

Steven Aitchison

#20. Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.

Ellen Key

#22. A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#23. I know you're in love, but don't let any man steamroll you. When all is said and done, marriage is about respect and compromise, but that doesn't mean you can't make a stand now and then for what's important. Remember that, Chelle. When love is right, it makes you stronger, not weaker." "Yes,

Ruth Cardello

#24. Love without sacrifice is like theft

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. Marriage requires maturity. Marriage requires two people who, for the rest of their lives, are willing to listen, to really listen to each other. And that marriage requires the greatest of all things, compromise.

Coach Taylor

#26. We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Raquel Welch

#27. Marriage is compromise and hard work,and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter.

Gillian Flynn

#28. I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

Alain De Botton

#29. Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.

Popo Santos

#30. Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?

Maria Semple

#31. Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary.

Martin Amis