Best Relationship Quotes and Sayings

These relationship quotes and sayings are for everyone. No matter how young or old you are, there is always something new to learn in a relationship. Learning about the secrets and wisdom behind successful relationships can go a long way in helping you sustain better and long relationships.

Here are some great relationship sayings that can give you better and deeper insights. Some reflections can bring a smile to your face, some can inspire you, and some can give you great advice.

Check these wonderful relationship sayings or share them with your friends and loved ones.

Quotes About Relationships

The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
Neale Donald Walsch

Love is no assignment for cowards.
Ovid

The one who loves the least controls the relationship.
Robert Newton Anthony

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

If a relationship is founded on love, it doesn’t end.
Rosanne Cash

It’s important to know when a relationship has run its course. Sometimes all you can say is, I’ve learned all I can learn from this person, and we’ve grown all we can together, and it’s time to move on.
Unknown

The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships is; We listen half, understand quarter, think zero, and react double.
Unknown

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment, for someday, that person might not be there again. Give time to love; give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
Bob Moorehead

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.
Milan Kundera

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

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New Relationships Quotations

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book… Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!
C. JoyBell C.

I know you think I’m crazy. Maybe that’s because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.
Crystal Woods

Before you begin a relationship with someone, make sure that your relationship with yourself is where it needs to be.
Unknown

For every new relationship, there’s at least another new broken heart.
Ryan Barber

Take your time, because relationships that start fast, end fast.
Unknown

New love may soar and plummet as it ebbs and flows, but what remains are the things we’ve discovered about each other. I’d do it all again because it led us to this love we share today.
Robin Raven

All I know is that you’re the nicest thing I’ve ever seen, I wish we could see if we could be something.
Kate Nash

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll

New love can heal lost love, but it cannot make you forget.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey – More from Oprah

New Love Sayings

One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
Susan Cain

New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.
April Mae Monterrosa

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Since I met you, I started to understand why all my past relationships ended: so that we could start.
Robin Raven

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Sarah Dessen

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride, so I love you because I know no other way.
Pablo Neruda

Trust is the fruit on a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William Paul Young

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Funny Relationship Sayings

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
E. Joseph Cossman

That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.
Jim Baker

My wife and I were happy for 20 years – then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West

Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.
Nora Ephron

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
Albert Einstein

If we take matrimony at its lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.
Linda Festa

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn’t understand math.
Mike Birbiglia

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.
Richard Jeni

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor

If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.
Benjamin Franklin

A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
Lucille Ball

Relationship Quotes For Him

Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
Veronica Roth

When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.
Steve Maraboli (See more Jealousy Quotes and Sayings)

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
Stephanie Perkins

Like the bees which keep collecting honey, you take a piece of me every day. I am so enchanted by your sweet smile and your loving affection that I will never be able to let go.
Ella Milch

Flowers swing by the breeze that blows in the evening just like your love makes me dance, sing and get excited each and every day.
Jenna Stark

I don’t need a reason to love you, just like I don’t need a reason to believe that God and love exist. All I need to do is love you more and more and more each day.
Melanie Wayne

I like the fact that you are funny and good looking. But the best thing I love about you is that you care so much for me and feel like a million dollars.
Diana Jordan

If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy.
Bob Marley

For Her

No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.
Marilyn Monroe

I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.
Pocahontas

One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without and find that breath is of little consequence.
Karen Marie Moning

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
A.A. Milne

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keep little photographs of.
Charles Bukowski

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coehlo

You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having.
Simone Elkeles

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred Tennyson

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Oscar Wilde

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe

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Best Relationship Quotes

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
Domenico Cieri Estrada

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.
Oprah Winfrey

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Lao Tzu

I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest—it doesn’t exist.
Richard Gere

That ‘Love never means you have to say sorry’ stuff doesn’t cut it. Say sorry, forgive, and forget.
Andy Atticus

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde

Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won’t cry, lips that won’t lie, and love that won’t die.
Wiz Khalifa

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
Henry Cloud

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike

We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
Cornel West

Holding Hands

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
Alexandra Penney

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
Oscar Wilde

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller

Real giving is when we give to our spouses what’s important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
Michele Weiner-Davis

After a while, you just want to be with the one who makes you laugh.
Mr. Big

Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.
Unknown

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.
Joanne Woodward

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

Celebrating Love Quotes

Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane Austen

Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.
Margart Mead

No road is long with good company.
Turkish Proverb

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you.
Bob Marley

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Trust is the fruit on a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William Paul Young

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

Real Love Quotes

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

Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers.
Niti Majethia

Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.
Fawn Weaver

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley

You’re my reflection, all I see is you.
Justin Timberlake

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo F. Buscaglia

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Movie Relationship Quotes

The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself.
Carrie Bradshaw

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Harry from When Harry Harry Met Sally

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

After a while, you just want to be with the one who makes you laugh.
Mr. Big

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Moulin Rouge

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.

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