Relationship Quotes

Relationship quotes talk about the importance of cultivating meaningful relationships in your life.

No woman is an island. Women are especially known to maintain good relationships with family, friends and others. It's within a woman's inherent nature to want to reach out and connect with people.

If you were to recall the most important moments in your life, you might realize that most of these moments were shared with someone else. Yes, you'll need solace time, privacy and chill out sessions on your own, but majority of your time is spent with someone else, be it your husband, kids, co-workers or students.

So let these relationship quotes bring new perspectives about one of the most crucial aspects of your life, your relationships with others.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
-- Henry Winkler

Be the kind of person you would like to be with. Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts
-- Joseph F. Newton Men

Before you try to change others, remember how hard it is to change yourself.
-- Bill Bluestein

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.
-- M Scott Peck

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-- Anais Nin

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.
-- Deepak Chopra

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting.
-- Todd Ruthman

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
-- Sidney J. Harris

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
-- Stephen R. Covey

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

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
-- Dinah Craik

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all success... all achievement in real life grows.
-- Ben Stein

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
-- Wayne Dyer

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
-- Emily Kimbrough

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
-- Swedish Proverb

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
-- Anthony Robbins

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, can forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
-- Author Unknown

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
-- Miles Franklin

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
-- Stephen R. Covey

When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.
-- Martin Walsh

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
-- Frederick Buechner

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