Top 76 Relationship Needs Communication Quotes
#1. Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#2. Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#3. You build walls to fortify your heart,
and blame on others for your loneliness.
Toba Beta
#5. Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.
John Friend
#6. Sometimes I text the "wrong" person ... on purpose. Just to start a conversation.
Frank Warren
#7. She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.
Anthony Liccione
#8. Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.
Sharon Salzberg
#9. You don't have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.
Misha Glenny
#10. Communication is a major key to building any strong relationship, whether it is the relationship one has with oneself or with others. Sinful communication weakens yourself, weakens those you care about, and thus weakens your team.
Shay Dawkins
#11. If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.
Patrick Califia
#12. Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.
Billy Graham
#13. The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship
Asa Don Brown
#14. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
Anna Deavere Smith
#15. Open the drawer and run your hands over the contents. Let them know you care and look forward to wearing them when they are next in season. This kind of "communication" helps your clothes stay vibrant and keeps your relationship with them alive longer.
Marie Kondo
#16. One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.
John W. Gardner
#17. In a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work.
Anonymous
#18. I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.
Yuvraj Singh
#19. Irritatingly angry people have no sense of humor when wearing their "angry pants.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#20. You don't have to cheat to lose your girl or your woman. You can lose her from lack of communication, attention and disrespect. It's not all about what you do, sometimes it's about what you don't do.
Chris Sain Jr.
#21. Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
Vanessa Lachey
#22. There is no amount of communication or work that can overcome being with someone who does not want what you want.
Kevin Darne
#23. People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is a symptom of an underlying problem with a relationship posture.
Roberta M. Gilbert
#24. Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
Salman Rushdie
#25. By holding hands a couple can always say a lot of things they couldn't have otherwise said in a public place. Among a million people, they can touch and tickle each other at their most intimate places: their hearts.
Uday Mukerji
#26. She won't know it if I'm not say it. Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem.
Olivia Sinaga
#27. If communication is lost everything is lost in a relationship.
Girdhar Joshi
#28. Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.
Bill Farrel
#29. When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
Stephen Covey
#30. Often we are identified with either the inner man or woman, while the other side is hidden and unexpressed. Outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner man and female side. Sometimes one side is dominant, while the other side is submissive.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#31. I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.
Francis Schaeffer
#32. We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.
Sara Zarr
#33. If you can find the time to discuss groceries and domestic tasks with your man, you can certainly find the time to talk about sexual role-play.
Miya Yamanouchi
#34. A more consistent and sustainable relationship with China will be a core goal of my administration. That requires open channels of communication, both with China's leadership and the Taiwanese people.
Tsai Ing-wen
#35. It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
Paul Watzlawick
#36. Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work.
Dr. Dre
#37. Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it's not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.
Tony Hsieh
#38. Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one's tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed.
Carlos Wallace
#39. The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.
Daniel Alarcon
#40. I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a "thank you" note instead of a hand-written card.
Debra Messing
#41. I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.
Miranda Kerr
#42. Communication is the life line of any relationship. Without it, the relationship will starve itself to death.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#43. Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.
Bell Hooks
#44. It's common to cease all communication when a relationship ends.
Laurann Dohner
#45. Silence (in a relationship) is never your friend. Communication is the pathway to healing and growth
Ilya Atani
#46. The 11 Pillars of Relationship Success #1 Trust #2 Faith #3 Honesty #4 Variety #5 Encouragement #6 Optimism #7 Communication #8 Interest #9 Time Away #10 Forgiveness #11 Initiative
Matt Bishop
#47. No relationship can survive without trust, honesty, and communication, no matter how close you are.
J. Sterling
#48. Remember that any functioning communication, and communication is a two-street; it requires my listening and my speaking. Our relationship with the Lord is no different. It requires my listening to God through a study of His word, and my speaking to God through diligent prayer.
Teresa Hampton
#49. Don't assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.
Turcois Ominek
#50. The issue of who will throw the garbage won't be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When the plates pile up in the kitchen sink, or when the bathroom is grimy and the shampoo ran out. No, it won't be funny then.
Eeva Lancaster
#51. A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
Steve Maraboli
#52. When we resort to screaming at someone, we are revealing weakness and a sense of helplessness. If we can't seem to get our message or feelings across any other way, then we get angry, and we get loud!
Cathy Burnham Martin
#53. Marriage is a commitment that requires effort and communication. Sometimes, it also requires a little creativity. Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. So be the bigger person skip the 'E' and let it 'Go'.
Pravin Agarwal
#54. Be in constant communication with Him so that when times get hard, you will have relationship instead of requests.
Angie Smith
#55. Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.
Mark W. Boyer
#56. Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
Myles Munroe
#57. Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is a communication. Both are equal in love; in a sexual relationship both are not equal. Love has a totally different beauty to it.
Rajneesh
#58. Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.
Peter Northouse
#59. We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?
Max De Pree
#60. Any Dom who doesn't promote open communication is not developing a healthy relationship.
Red Phoenix
#61. I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.
Ben Lerner
#62. Our outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner male and female sides. Our outer relationships with a man or a woman are a possibility to understand our own inner man or woman.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#63. The relationship is the communication bridge between people.
Alfred Kadushin
#64. You could be a really great and fabulous person, but if your method of communication with a woman doesn't trigger her physical attraction by "pushing the right buttons," you will only ever be "just a friend" in her eyes.
Sahara Sanders
#65. You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#66. God's plan for you, whether you're married, single, or about to be married, unless He gives you the gift of singleness, is to be in a warm, loving marriage relationship, characterized by open communication, a lot of hard work, deep commitment, setting boundaries, and doing it God's way.
Chip Ingram
#67. Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.
Charlotte Eriksson
#68. That a healthy BDSM or kink relationship involves building a deep trust in each other, open and honest communication, using safewords, negotiating and sharing your hard and soft limits, and always involves activities mutually consented upon between adults.
Kallypso Masters
#69. Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.
Harriet B. Braiker
#70. Don't let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection and intimacy in your relationship.
Miya Yamanouchi
#71. I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication.
Jane Green
#72. I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#73. 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
#74. It doesn't matter if people doesn't know that you do a good thing nor the right thing. But he nor she must know your expression of love.
Olivia Sinaga
#76. Treat every connection, communication and collaboration as part of a continuous relationship.
Kim Chandler McDonald
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