Relationship Success Quotes

Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

Basically, nice guys can finish last.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

Being in a relationship doesn't mean you're successful. You are successful if you are happy.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention.

This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story can involve very talented actors, but we are not invested emotionally in whether they end up together.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.

I've maybe gotten broken up with one time, and I like to think that's because I'm a very good girlfriend.

Every relationship stands on its own, and it's successful or not successful for its own reason.

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.

I think live-in relationship works for a few people, and it doesn't for others. I have never done it, so I can't speak about the pros and cons. I don't know if that will work for me or not, but I am definitely not close to the idea. For an arrangement like that to succeed, one needs to have the right feeling for the right person.

I think we all cheer for couples who just seem right together and go the distance.

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.

There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There's a big difference between knowing and doing. It's not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it's how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you're right, your future will be dim.

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.

Ideally you want every relationship to work, if it happens it's great, if it doesn't it is unfortunate.