Quotes About Your Spouse

#1. Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble. - Author: Albert Brooks

#2. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you. - Author: Paul Clitheroe

#3. One of the most loving things you can ever do for your spouse is to pray for them. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7). - Author: Alex Kendrick

#4. The latent potential within your spouse in his or her areas of insecurity may await your encouraging words. - Author: Gary Chapman

#5. Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. - Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#6. A blanket would be a great surface to print my new book on, so you could read it in bed while you're having boring, obligatory sex with your spouse, who's as dry and exciting as a sack of flour. - Author: Jarod Kintz

#7. If you don't have a lot of energy, and you are called upon to give to your youngest several times a minute (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say), you quickly exhaust your reservoir of good will toward your spouse. - Author: John Medina

#8. your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube? - Author: Matt Morris

#9. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself. - Author: Francis Chan

#10. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse. - Author: Malti Bhojwani

#11. What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly! - Author: Marly Youmans

#12. Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything. - Author: Candace Bushnell

#13. Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things. - Author: Louise Hay

#14. I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents. - Author: Andrew Solomon

#15. Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse ... discretions apply elsewhere - Author: Amit Abraham

#16. What do others see when they look at your life? What do those who know you best say about you - your spouse, your children, your friends, your coworkers? Do they see inconsistencies in any area of your life - money, relationships, speech, possessions? - Author: Billy Graham

#17. After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks. - Author: Claire Dyer

#18. There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude. - Author: Jeffrey Kluger

#19. Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse. - Author: Ted Lowe

#20. It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money. - Author: Mark Hart

#21. That's what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don't believe anymore - Author: Michael J. Sullivan

#22. Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better. - Author: Fannie Flagg

#23. Supervillainy seemed like the sort of thing you needed to be upfront with your spouse about. - Author: C.T. Phipps

#24. Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years. - Author: Mark Driscoll

#25. A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see. - Author: Ted Cruz

#26. Long-term marital intimacy requires accepting this truth: to stop giving yourself to your spouse is to spiritually divorce them. - Author: Gary L. Thomas

#27. The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse. - Author: John Piper

#28. If your spouse wants to cheat on you, he or she will. This world is a haven of opportunities. But no matter what, in any relationship, one must never doubt the spouse - Author: Jagdish Joghee

#29. One of the best wedding gfts God gave you was a full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card attached, it would have said, "Here's to helping you discover what you're really like!" - Gary and Betsy Ricucci - Author: Gary L. Thomas

#30. People are worried that their inner voice will tell them to leave their husbands or wives - or their jobs. Well, if that's really what your inner guidance is saying, then that is for your highest good and for your spouse's or partner's. There is a plan for everyone. - Author: Echo Bodine

#31. Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah. - Author: Yasmin Mogahed

#32. Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you'd crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said. - Author: Lauren Groff

#33. Tell your spouse you are trying to make changes and THEN appeal to your spouse to understand you. - Author: Emerson Eggerichs

#34. When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together. - Author: Phil McGraw

#35. Never tell the same lie twice. Lies have to be fresh, constantly changing. You cheat on your spouse, come up with a new excuse every time you're home late. Don't, and you get eaten. - Author: Nicholas Lamar Soutter

#36. Trying to prove scientifically the historical accuracy of events in the Bible is to faith what having your spouse under twenty-four-hour video surveillance is to marital trust. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#37. When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change. - Author: Paul David Tripp

#38. Brothers and sisters, if your spouse doesn't feel good about something, show respect for those feelings. When you take the easy way out by saying and doing nothing, you may be enabling destructive behavior. - Author: Larry R. Lawrence

#39. The way you date(treat) your spouse, truly has an impact inside and outside of your marriage. - Author: Lindsey Rietzsch

#40. The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you. - Author: Lindsey Rietzsch

#41. You cannot really lose anything because you don't own anything in the first place. Not the stuff you have, nor your spouse, nor your property. They are given to you for temporary keep. - Author: Chuck Chakrapani

#42. Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line. - Author: Jason Evert

#43. 10How fair is your love, My sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, And the scent of your perfumes Than all spices! 11Your lips, O my spouse, Drip as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments Is like the fragrance of Lebanon. - Author: Anonymous

#44. All we marrieds have a marriage chuckle. A marriage chuckle is a fake laugh you bring out when your spouse does something dumb that you have to pretend is charming. My - Author: Helen Ellis

#45. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most. - Author: Lindsey Rietzsch

#46. Having a really good partner, whether it's a good friend, someone in your family or a spouse, is always the greatest thing to have when you have a new challenge that you're facing. - Author: Anousheh Ansari

#47. I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home. - Author: Michael Zaslow

#48. A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself. - Author: Kate Braestrup

#49. The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone. - Author: Steve Pavlina

#50. That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness. - Author: Criss Jami

#51. A willingness to examine and change stereotypes is necessary in order to express love more effectively. Remember, there are no rewards for maintaining stereotypes, but there are tremendous benefits to meeting the emotional needs of your spouse. - Author: Gary Chapman

#52. And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind. - Author: Larry Winget

#53. Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It's just not you and your spouse. There's a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead. - Author: Tim Huelskamp

#54. Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind. - Author: Dave Willis

#55. It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy. - Author: Zsa Zsa Gabor

#56. When you have friends, don't expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don't expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you're an activist, don't put your hope in the results. When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on Allah. - Author: Yasmin Mogahed

#57. Dedicate yourself above all else to becoming the-best-version-of-yourself. It is the best thing you can do for your spouse, your children, your friends, your colleagues, your employees, your employer, your church, your nation, the human family, and yourself. - Author: Matthew Kelly

#58. I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right. - Author: Karan Johar

#59. It is dangerous to laugh at your spouse. - Author: Gillian Flynn

#60. Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling her what she's not doing right? Or are you doing like Solomon-blessing, encouraging, and uplifting that woman? - Author: Joel Osteen

#61. When your spouse's emotional love tank is full and he feels secure in your love, the whole world looks bright and your spouse will move out to reach his highest potential in life. - Author: Gary Chapman

#62. Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife! - Author: Bernard Kelvin Clive

#63. If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you. - Author: Seth Adam Smith

#64. It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity. - Author: John Eldredge

#65. For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am. - Author: Bill Hybels

#66. Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage. - Author: Jim George

#67. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#68. Put one foot in front of the other and never look back unless your spouse is calling you. - Author: Sam Black

#69. I don't see what's so "romantic" about spending a week in a tropical paradise with your spouse whom you've already seen almost every day for the past quarter century. - Author: Rachel Cohn

#70. The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.' - Author: Zig Ziglar

#71. I tell every young woman who asks me, be very careful about your choice of spouse. If you don't have a supportive spouse, it will be difficult to take on so many things. - Author: Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

#72. The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse. - Author: Stephen Covey

#73. Make time every day to share with each other some of the events of the day. When you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you can end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse. - Author: Gary Chapman

#74. The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy. - Author: Olivia Wilde

#75. While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. - Author: Timothy Keller

#76. Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#77. One of the gifts of a long marriage is the ability to communicate anything - from mild displeasure to the meaning of life - with a single glance. It's something you develop in the process of mixing your soul with your spouse's, if you're willing to mix your soul. - Author: Cody McFadyen

#78. A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman. - Author: Stephen King

#79. What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal. - Author: Mitt Romney

#80. Here is a relationship booster
that is guaranteed to
work:
Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
make your eyes light up as if you
just heard something
brilliant. - Author: Rumi

#81. My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave. - Author: Mark Ruffalo

#82. [Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another. - Author: Teresa Of Avila

#83. If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Author: Suze Orman

#84. Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love. - Author: Gary Chapman

#85. Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself. - Author: Phyllis McGinley

#86. As you can experience, the request to retrieve and say aloud your phone number or your spouse's birthday also requires a brief but significant effort, because the entire string must be held in memory as a response is organized. - Author: Daniel Kahneman

#87. Place the needs and wants and the hopes and dreams of your spouse first. Anything and everything you do with and for the other accrues to a common account that pays huge dividends. - Author: Richard Foth

#88. The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend. - Author: Jim Rohn

#89. Your emotional love language and the language of your spouse may be as different as Chinese from English. - Author: Gary Chapman

#90. It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse - Author: Ngina Otiende

#91. Marriage is not a reform school ... Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you. - Author: Billy Graham

#92. You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day. - Author: Robert M. Pirsig

#93. Show physical affection. Nothing says "I love you" like bearing the entirety of your spouse's weight. - Author: Jesse Petersen

#94. Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form. - Author: Jeffrey Kluger

#95. If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way. - Author: Kenneth Fisher

#96. Thus, again, marriage is comprehensive in some basic ways, not in every sense. But the same holds of most revisionists' master principle: a spouse cannot be your "number one partner" in every activity, or your "soul-mate" in every domain. - Author: Sherif Girgis

#97. The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances. - Author: Andrew J. Bernstein

#98. Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse. - Author: Joni Eareckson Tada

#99. WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret. - Author: Dave Barry

#100. Consideration is the basis of etiquette, and it starts at home. If you can't show consideration to your spouse, child or family member any consideration you show outside is shallow and a farce. - Author: Chinha Raheja