Top 100 Quotes About Great Relationships
#1. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.
Brian Houston
#2. I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.
Chris Rock
#3. The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.
Brian Tracy
#4. Great relationships create great characters. Make them feel real. Alive. Tangible and unforgettable. Bad relationships kill them. Bury them. Make you wish they hadn't wasted your precious time.
Luke Taylor
#5. I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.
Ben Affleck
#6. All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This
Patrick Lencioni
#7. Fortunately perfection is not a requirement for creating great relationships.
John Gray
#8. Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.
Marguerite Moreau
#9. If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.
Joel Osteen
#10. Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
Bill Walsh
#11. I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.
Donald Trump
#12. You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#13. Connecting is vital for any person who wants to achieve success. It is essential for anyone who wants to build great relationships. You will only be able to reach your potential-regar dless of your profession or chosen path-when you learn to connect with other people.
John C. Maxwell
#14. Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within.
Steve Maraboli
#15. I've always had great relationships and stayed really good friends with the guys I've dated.
Hayden Panettiere
#16. I'm just human, and I have great relationships with the people that work for me.
Andie MacDowell
#17. I have great relationships with all my exes, and everyone in my life, because I honor the time and the love and the energy of those relationships. I'm happy to say that I can have everybody over for dinner.
Kevin Drew
#18. Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.
Jeffrey Fry
#19. What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love.
Chris Prentiss
#20. I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
Lance Bass
#21. I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.
Julia Roberts
#22. I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.
Weyes Blood
#23. In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.
James Wolfensohn
#24. The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially.
Elizabeth Ironside
#25. The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.
Michael Morpurgo
#26. I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.
Joel Osteen
#27. I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart..
Laarni Venus Marie Giango
#28. Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently ... a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise.
Shahzia Sikander
#29. I don't want a relationship that just looks good on the outside. It's more important that it feels great on the inside.
Sherri Rifkin
#30. Don't use your past romantic relationships As a template for your new relationship. Every person is different. You yourself are now different. Make it new, make it better, make it great.
Sienna McQuillen
#31. Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single.
Kemi Sogunle
#32. Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships
Gary Chapman
#33. I'm not annoying in relationships! I'm great!
Leona Lewis
#34. When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
Earl Monroe
#35. I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.
Erin Davie
#36. Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#37. Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.
Tracy McMillan
#38. Elizabeth Bennet, will you do me the great honor of not going to prom with me?
Elizabeth Eulberg
#39. Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disintegrate. You start with a love story, you end up manacled to an hourglass, watching the sands run out.
Paul Murray
#40. It was a great love," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you differently. Take good care of yourself. You'll be happy with someone else.
Erick Setiawan
#41. Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.
Dominic Sherwood
#42. It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be as important to nurture as any other relationship in your life. Without your health, you have nothing.
Joanna Garcia
#43. A pair of great heels was much more satisfying than a man. They lasted longer, and better yet, they didn't leave me for someone prettier.
Cindi Madsen
#44. If all I have to do is remain awake to be considered romantic, than I can promise you a great deal of romance in our marriage.
Sherry Thomas
#45. The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the narcissism, the addiction, even the outlandish dress. Often they don't put great value in relationships.
Drew Pinsky
#46. Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys
either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.
Eugene Mirman
#47. After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.
Essence Atkins
#48. People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.
Keith Ferrazzi
#49. I'm really great in other peoples relationships.
Dane Cook
#50. The number of people who have either gotten married or had kids or started dating or just made great friends over Instagram is countless. I think we're the only platform that continues to be successful in bringing people together in real life for these real relationships.
Kevin Systrom
#51. I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#52. He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
Jasper Fforde
#53. Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
Ross Perot
#54. I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
Larry Wilcox
#55. It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn't take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied partner to start to feel love-starved and sadly unfulfilled. If you want great sex in the bedroom, show love to each other outside the bedroom.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#56. Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.
Elizabeth Peters
#57. Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.
Rob Liano
#58. There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities
Moliere
#59. Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while preparing you for the next great adventure.
Randy Siegel
#60. You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.
Carrie Jones
#61. Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.
Alexa Chung
#62. Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.
Seth Godin
#63. I'm tired of seeing great women in bullshit relationships.
Greg Behrendt
#64. He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend about me: If I get that girl's number I will never ask another girl for her number again.
Kimberly Novosel
#65. Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
Mia Hamm
#66. It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.
Jorja Fox
#67. If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.
D.H. Lawrence
#68. It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
Eknath Easwaran
#69. There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.
Stormie O'martian
#70. Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).
Brian Tracy
#71. Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.
Theodore William Richards
#72. When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.
Julia Roberts
#73. The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.
JR
#74. I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.
Elizabeth Banks
#75. Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks?
Chris Bent
#76. Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?
Lenon Honor
#77. That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.
Jane Green
#78. I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.
Pat Conroy
#79. You're great but you're not there when I go to bed at night or get up in the morning. You don't make me a cup of tea after a hard day at work, or rub my back in the bath. I'm sick of being lonely. Is that so wrong?
Eleanor Prescott
#80. Being single is a great thing. Some people can't do it
or are afraid to do it. Many people lose themselves in their relationships and forget who they are instead of learning from the other person and bettering themselves.
Elise Valmorbida
#81. How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#82. Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#84. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps
Karl Marx
#85. Games aren't created by writers rocking up to developers saying 'I have this great game story.' It's about establishing relationships and working hand in hand to create something wonderful.
Rhianna Pratchett
#86. If someone yells at me, they are not expressing love. They may be threatening me. They may be expressing great frustration with me. They may simply be trying to control my behavior. However, they are not communicating love.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#87. Fights come from relationships with great passion in them
Melissa Walker
#88. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. You're a great person, and I just want you to manifest that in relationships.
Ernessa T. Carter
#90. I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound guy, I'll take it. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, whether it's a first-time director or it's Mike Nichols. I think that's the standard that the great ones set.
Patrick Wilson
#91. Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
Jerry L. Lewis
#92. They could address everything else and still not solve the problem. He was always proud of her when she said that. A liberal arts background was a hard thing to overcome, but she was doing great.
James S.A. Corey
#93. Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory.
Tim Fargo
#94. Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.
Wilkie Collins
#95. Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.
Vantile Whitfield
#96. In all of your relationships, romantic or not, GIVE. Practice it. You get good at what you practice, and sometimes you even become great.
Ilya Atani
#97. What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.
Penny Jordan
#98. Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.
Amit Ray
#99. So, all I could do was what everyone else did - cherish the good relationships and attempt to avoid the bad. I didn't have a great track record doing either, but I was sure as hell trying.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
#100. IT TAKES A LOT OF LIFE EXPERIENCE TO SEE WHY SOME RELATIONSHIPS LAST AND OTHERS DO NOT. BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR A CRISIS TO GET AN IDEA OF A PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP. OUR BEHAVIOR IN LITTLE EVERYDAY INCIDENTS TELLS US A GREAT DEAL. - Eknath Easwaran
Jack Canfield
