Quotes About Relationships

#1. Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

Shakti Gawain

#2. Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

Shin Kyung-sook

#3. I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.

Melanie Benjamin

#4. Garment trade. Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant - given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.

Laird Hamilton

#6. The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.

John Kador

#7. I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least most of them, are sort of camp pantomimes about male and female sex roles, even if the couple is marrying as individuals and equals ...

Dan Savage

#8. Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships.

John C. Maxwell

#9. Relationships are most likely to fail when we don't address problems or hold our partner accountable for unfair or irresponsible behavior ... the ability to clarify our values, beliefs, and life goals
and then to keep our behavior congruent with them
is at the heart of a solid marriage.

Harriet Lerner

#10. We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

Anthony De Mello

#11. The decisions we make regarding vocation, child rearing, education, civic and church involvement, and other areas of life create changes that affect our marriage relationships. The manner in which couples process these changes will determine the quality of their marriages.

Gary Chapman

#12. If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.

Ian McKellen

#13. The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

Jack Ma

#14. Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

Rick Springfield

#15. When you TRULY accept yourself, everyone else will do the same. Relationships "mirror" what we believe about ourselves.

Shannon Tanner

#16. Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.

Tracy McMillan

#17. I don't understand myself in relationships and I don't understand relationships. So to continue to explore them and to try and work that out is honestly what I am really doing.

Drake Doremus

#18. What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

Lindsey Stirling

#19. The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

Scott K. Edinger

#20. I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things I don't experience firsthand, but most of the time it's about relationships - things that are going on in my head.

Meiko

#21. Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.

Bill Simmons

#22. The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

Stefan Molyneux

#23. Closure. Such an odd concept. Did relationships really need it? Or was it just an excuse for one last glimpse at what could have been?

Alessandra Torre

#24. One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

C. Everett Koop

#25. Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.

David Holmgren

#26. The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

Alan Greenspan

#27. Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

Stephen Covey

#28. [Author's Note: Barbara Hand Clow gives a much more detailed description and story about the photon band and the cosmological changes in dimensional relationships we are undergoing in her latest book, The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light.]

Amorah Quan Yin

#29. I can fill my cup up with real human interactions that allow me to be an actor. If I had no basis for relationships, as Kristen Bell, the human, I couldn't be an actress.

Kristen Bell

#30. In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

Park Chan-wook

#31. Women define themselves by their relationships and men define themselves by whom they are helping. Women believe value is created by sacrifice. If you are willing to give up your favorite activities to be with her, she will trust you. If being with her is too easy for you, she will not trust you.

Scott Adams

#32. You can road-test relationships.

Joel Edgerton

#33. 'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

Pete Doherty

#34. Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together

Alex Haditaghi

#35. I don't seem to meet very many men I find attractive. And usually when I meet them and develop crushes on them they are usually straight. So I end up having more relationships with women ...

Brian Molko

#36. Relationships should be like flat pack; come with easy to follow instructions so that you knew which bits fitted where

Jenny O'Brien

#37. The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.

Gary W. Keller

#38. Thinking about anger in positive terms is alien in most people's experiences. However, a healthy expression of anger is a component for building and maintaining successful relationships!

David W. Earle

#39. What television gets to do, and there's a reason why 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' works as well as it does, is that it deals with the relationships. It deals with the very small, interpersonal ways that people both love and hate each other.

Jeffrey Bell

#40. In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

Kate Del Castillo

#41. I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.

Danielle Fishel

#42. We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world. Friendship we pretend. Relationships we hide. But worst of all is the love we never let show; the most dangerous secret a person can bury are those we keep for ourselves.

Kevin McCarty

#43. Through the years I had quit on everything that ever mattered: college, going for promotions, relationships - at least the relationships that demanded any work.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#44. Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.

Stanislaw Ulam

#45. What do you want to know?
Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. :-D
I'm 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty calories, and I've had one long-term serious relationship ...

Arden Aoide

#46. Every action taken by human beings is based in love or fear, not simply those dealing with relationships.

Neale Donald Walsch

#47. Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#48. Did you know that wherever you find fool's gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes for relationships and friendships. Real gold is found in the heart. For every piece of fake gold that you discard, remember that true gold isn't too far.

Suzy Kassem

#49. I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

Chris Cleave

#50. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Stephen Covey

#51. People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

A. C. Benson

#52. Connections and relationships are important everywhere, anywhere - of course in China, because the rule of law it is not as strong as in the West, so a lot would rely on personal relationships.

Vincent Lo

#53. Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

Penny Wong

#54. I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

Marie Helvin

#55. Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

James Garner

#56. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Lauren Oliver

#57. I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.

Katie Price

#58. All anyone really wants is to feel appreciated. So if you want to create real, long-lasting relationships, do that.

Charles F. Glassman

#59. LaShon knew that there was no way that was going to happen. She had dealt with her fair share of jail relationships and every time the dude came home he expected to pick up things where they left off at as if nothing ever happened.

Kevina Hopkins

#60. Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Federico Fellini

#61. We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we're enmeshed.

Ken Liu

#62. English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

Rita Mae Brown

#63. In the most beautiful relationships, silence is never awkward, for it's
in the silence that we come closer together.

Steven Aitchison

#64. I've seen too many people give up on love too fast. Walking away from relationships doesn't provide the hoped-for relief, bring solutions, or simplify life. Rather, it piles on more problems through the lingering resentment and finger-pointing.

Gary Chapman

#65. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#66. She had personal details about my relationships that only my close friends should have known. "So you've got a stalker," I said to my reflection in the rearview mirror. "And she eats people. Great.

Craig Schaefer

#67. I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Jerzy Kosinski

#68. If he had learned anything from his parents, he learned that business was a matter of relationships.

T. J. Stiles

#69. Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

Joshua Harris

#70. A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships.

Anthony Liccione

#71. We're only five years apart," I said defiantly. "If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we're near normal.

Heather Heffner

#72. Don't get stuck where you are, keep growing. It's a decision you have to make because it is easy to get stuck. Make a decision to develop better habits, to have better relationships and just to keep the enthusiasm for life.

Joel Osteen

#73. One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

J.J. Abrams

#74. I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept me moving. It kept my life disruptive. It broke up many relationships. Was it worth it? Yes.

Sandra Cisneros

#75. Living a minimalistic lifestyle is becoming more and more popular as people realize materialistic items hold no true value. Making memories that last a lifetime and forging relationships with the people you live with is a treasure that you can't put a price on.

Ron Johnson

#76. Doing things for someone else is what I love most about relationships, even more than having stuff done for me.

Daria Snadowsky

#77. It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

John Grogan

#78. A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Boy George

#79. Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.

Costa Georgiadis

#80. the best predictor of whether we are happy or not is our social relationships.

Meik Wiking

#81. These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

Sherry Turkle

#82. A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe ... it's you!

Karrine Steffans

#83. You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus

#84. The modern world is filled with failed relationships.

Steven Magee

#85. 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.

Stephen Covey

#86. 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

#87. When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.

John O'Donohue

#88. 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

#89. I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

Jose Gonzalez

#90. I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Anne Lamott

#91. There's so much going on, with child abuse, not having the right relationships and being in abusive relationships, that play into her, and that energy was constantly in my body for a month. I was the lead character and it was very, very intense.

Tinsel Korey

#92. I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.

Michael Douglas

#93. Time is running faster than watch.
Life is running faster than Time.
We are running faster than Life.
In this race, relationships are being left behind

Pankaj Gupta

#94. I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.

Arnold Palmer

#95. You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

Nick Hornby

#96. Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.

Jane Green

#97. Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.

Dan Quayle

#98. Nature is self-renewing as it adjusts to maintain balance. Nature becomes even more vibrant as it yields to allow recycling. It is best to align with success and become nature with your health, wealth, and relationships.

Franklin Gillette

#99. First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

Peter McWilliams

#100. We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

Pete Coors