Top 100 Relationships Work Quotes
#1. Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
Warren Farrell
#2. It's hard to make relationships work with others when you don't have a good relationship with yourself.
Joe Hill
#3. Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
Charles Baxter
#4. Why would you apologize for what you read for pleasure? Just think of the illiteracy rate. Every book read for pleasure should be celebrated. And novels that celebrate love, commitment, relationships, making relationships work, why isn't that something to be respected?
Nora Roberts
#5. Understand, respect, and embrace other people's uniqueness. That is the foundation of any relationship - spouses, significant others, family, friends, etc. We are not the same and those differences are why relationships work. Spicing up a relationship with compromise!
David Mezzapelle
#6. Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.
Carrie Fisher
#7. I know he's right to be worried about us, because I'm worried about us too. I don't understand how relationships work. I don't know how they survive. It seems every day something new arrives to threaten your peace of mind.
Mike Gayle
#8. I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
Drew Barrymore
#9. If you are in a relationship, stop trying to figure out who wears the pants between the two of you. Relationships work best when both of you are not wearing pants.
Miriam
#10. The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life.
Kristi Bowman
#11. Salsa is a way of life. Tener salsa en la vida is to fully enjoy life, by treasuring family, relationships, work, and community.
Juana Bordas
#12. Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.
Ron Rubin
#13. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.
Anna Jarzab
#14. People and relationships never stop being a work in progress
Nora Roberts
#15. Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries demonstrates respect for ourselves and others and builds trust in both our work and personal relationships.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#16. 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
#17. I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out.
Denise Van Outen
#18. Relationships never work well when you only listen to yourself.
Richard Foth
#19. Besides, men aren't worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we'd be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you're the only person you can trust.
S.R. Crawford
#20. When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.
Shauna Niequist
#21. Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.
Christophe Beck
#22. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
Douglas McGregor
#23. The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#24. If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else.
Miya Yamanouchi
#25. I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
Chris Farley
#26. As governor, I work in hand in hand with tribal leaders on everything from disaster response to economic development. Tribal governments are important partners to our state government, and I value the good relationships my administration has cultivated with them.
Mary Fallin
#27. You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.
Taylor Swift
#28. When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him; they're concerned about their daughter's tummy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#29. Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don't work out as they expected.
Heather Chapple
#30. 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
#31. The more you work with your dreams and your unconscious, and honor it, the more you understand it and it understands you. When you develop a relationship with your psyche this way, you begin to carry that energy into life and your relationships.
Marion Woodman
#32. There are no refunds and no exchanges with love. It comes with flaws and imperfections. It's raw, unfiltered, and sometimes it isn't easy. But I've found the best things in this life are the ones I've had to work hardest for.
Helena Hunting
#33. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
Anne Tyler
#34. You love me?"
He smiled. "Fuck yeah."
"I'm glad, because it's rare for one-sided relationships to work out well."
His smile widened. "Is that your very poor way of telling me you love me?"
"It was pretty poor, wasn't it?
Suzanne Wright
#35. If you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.
Arman
#36. 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
#37. All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.
Jamie Wyeth
#38. Maybe relationships shouldn't be such hard work ...
Sarra Manning
#39. I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
May Sarton
#40. Relationships are difficult. It's life. You love life, so you fight. You fight because you love. Otherwise, you wouldn't fight. You work. You don't want to die. Why life is a fight, I don't know, but gosh! It is.
Sophie Marceau
#41. Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it's necessary to start with ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#42. What else am I missing here? What's in this for you?" "You." Ben was honest for once, and it seemed to work, making Maddox stop mid-laugh and wiping the smart-ass expression off his face. "You're in it for me. I don't do relationships, you're right. But I do you. And I want to try this with you.
Annabeth Albert
#43. I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships ... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.
Conor McPherson
#44. When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
Vince Vaughn
#45. People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them.
Don't be afraid to reach out.
Mensah Oteh
#46. I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.
Claire Denis
#47. We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.
Jeffrey Kluger
#48. It's the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically
Meg Jay
#49. Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
Ram Dass
#50. There's a reason why relationships don't work out. It's usually better to take a few steps back if you have any doubts before it gets complicated and you find yourself in a tangled web, not of your doing, but somehow you end up paying the price.
E.R. Wade
#51. In terms of sex between same-sex partners, the objection that "the parts don't fit" doesn't make sense on even the most logical level. If the parts didn't work together, frankly, people wouldn't be putting them together.
Kathy Baldock
#52. Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn't reflect the state of my soul...it's the priorities unseen - the prayers, the relationships, the love while doing the work - that hold the meaning, the merit.
Ann Voskamp
#53. Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards.
Sam Owen
#54. I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so that they may love me, and so that I can love them. For me, this is very important, and many, or all, of my relationships are based on that.
Angeles Mastretta
#55. The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all ... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
Graham Hill
#56. The thing is, relationships never work out ... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.
Tracy McMillan
#57. Relationships take work. It isn't true love if things go smoothly.
S.R. Crawford
#58. I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
Rachael Taylor
#59. When work relationships are reciprocal, ethical leadership emerges for both the executive and the participant unless the executive is trying to control the participant.
Peter J. Dean
#60. Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.
Brian Tracy
#61. Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.
Deborah Sandella
#62. After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.
Ron Garan
#63. Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.
Timothy Ferriss
#64. It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.
Graham King
#65. I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.
Terrence J
#66. Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'
Alison Gopnik
#67. The insanity has to stop ... It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show up in our relationships and at work, our sense of our worth, value, and potential as human beings. Join in-and help change-the Conversation.
Ashley Judd
#68. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.
Avril Carruthers
#69. Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
Natasha Lyonne
#70. For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.
Ray Dalio
#71. On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
Adrian Tomine
#72. The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities.
Mark Parker
#73. I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.
Arthur Fogel
#74. As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.
Michael Gurian
#75. Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it.
Kyra Gregory
#76. I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.
Jeanne Moreau
#77. It's strange how many of us choose to stuff our lives with busyness and distractions. When we're too busy, we don't do anything well. Our relationships suffer, our performance at work suffers, and we don't enjoy our lives. Yet being "crazy busy" is a badge of honor for some people.
Bert Jacobs
#78. I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.
Anne Hathaway
#79. People are not perfect ... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
Patricia Hewitt
#80. If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.
S. Truett Cathy
#81. We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
Carl Honore
#82. All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with.
Shakti Gawain
#83. It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.
Bjork
#85. But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
Sarah Dessen
#86. I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.
Dennis Franz
#87. If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms ... such a society will be better able to innovate ... since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge ...
Francis Fukuyama
#88. The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
Adyashanti
#89. I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic.
Morrissey
#90. My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury
Rodney Barnes
#91. Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our relationships and our work and creativity.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#92. Walking through suffering is a work that is bound by limitation. Often it isn't that the afflicted are unwilling to let others in. It is just that there comes a certain point in a person's suffering where there is no apparent port of entry.
Russ Ramsey
#93. To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#94. It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.
Aleksandar Hemon
#95. It was one of the best things about him; he liked to talk about people, study them, and work them out. He was interested in the complexities of relationships.
Liane Moriarty
#96. I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
Scott Bakula
#97. 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
#98. This is how Tack and Raven work: It's their private language of push and return, argument and concession. 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.
Lauren Oliver
#99. Oh, no. This has "marriage" written all over it. Travis, read my lips: remember that Fellini film with the prostitute who says that every new sunrise makes her a virgin? It doesn't work that way with me. Even the sun thinks I'm a slut.
Steve Kluger
#100. We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
Val McDermid
