67 Inspiring Relationship Quotes

Navigating the landscape of relationships can be both a rewarding and challenging journey. Whether it's with a partner, family member, or friend, relationships require nurturing, understanding, and commitment. In moments when words are hard to find, quotes from those who have beautifully captured the essence of human connection can provide insight, reassurance, and inspiration. In this blog post, we bring you a selection of 67 inspiring relationship quotes. Each one is chosen to resonate with different facets of relationships, offering wisdom, comfort, and motivation. As you explore these quotes, may they spark reflection and help to strengthen the bonds that matter most in your life.

1. “She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.” - Anthony Trollope

2. “If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say,seed of discord is being planted in your relationship.” - Toba Beta

3. “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus

4. “In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.” - John Grogan

5. “If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.” - Steve Maraboli

6. “A friend asks, "Tell me one word which is significant in any kinds of relationship." Another friend says, "LISTEN!” - Santosh Kalwar

7. “Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.” - William P. Young

8. “ wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.” - Amy Tan

9. “Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.” - Simone Elkeles

10. “...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.” - Ally Carter

11. “Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)” - John Green

12. “It occurred to me that my cheek was probably right over his tattoo. Without thinking, I lifted my face and tugged at the neckline of his T-shirt. This time, the stark black-and-gold mark wasn't hidden. No need for that spell anymore, I guess. Still, I covered it with my palm. Archer's hands clutched reflexively on my waist. Our eyes met. "It doesn't burn this time," I whispered.His breathing was ragged. "Beg to differ, Mercer.” - Rachel Hawkins

13. “Bila dari dulu aku tahu sebuah tabrakan bisa mempertemukanku dengan wanita cantik sepertimu, aku tak akan mengemudi terlalu hati-hati.” - Francisca Todi

14. “Kau yakin kau sudah mengecek rias wajahmu? Matamu kelihatan seperti mata panda.” - Francisca Todi

15. “Real love has little to do with falling. It's a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, and most people are too selfish or too scared to bother. Very few reach the critical point in their relationship that summons the attention of the light and the dark, that place where they will make a commitment to love no matter what obstacles-or temptations- appear in their path.” - Stacey Jay

16. “This is the part where I kiss you.” - Cynthia Hand

17. “If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.” - Criss Jami

18. “We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.” - Parker J. Palmer

19. “It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.” - Anthony Kiedis

20. “I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.” - Steve Maraboli

21. “Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.” - Valerie Frankel

22. “Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.” - Mary Lydon Simonsen

23. “Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.” - Joyce Brothers

24. “When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.” - Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo

25. “He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either.” - Christine Feehan

26. “The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

27. “Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

28. “The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

29. “Don't say negative things about your spouse and children.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

30. “Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

31. “I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.” - David Levithan

32. “Malick to Jacin: "There is no trade anymore, you're not nothing, you didn't kill Caidi, you're going to be the most beautiful-dangerous Incendiary the gods have ever seen, and I fucking love you. Deal with it.” - Carole Cummings

33. “When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that's when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.” - Olaotan Fawehinmi

34. “Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

35. “A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.” - Jed Rubenfeld

36. “Nah, Mike’s gonna stop by. He had to work late and he workswith this really cute chick and I just know he….” Alycia folded her armson her chest and pouted. “She better be a blonde bimbo with a huge rackand no personality if he’s gonna cheat on me.” - J.M. Colail

37. “You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu” - Kate Chisman

38. “But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess — to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficult problem. No living poet has, I think, altogether solved it.” - Virginia Woolf

39. “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.” - Kate Chisman

40. “I’m a cold-hearted bastard. I’m insular, I’m jaded, a workaholic, I’m ruthless and I’m self-serving. I don’t do forever, I rarely even do “I’ll call you tomorrow”. And just because I’m here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will.” - Ally Blake

41. “Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.” - Destiny Allison

42. “The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)” - Paulo Coelho

43. “The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them.” - Adrienne Maria Vrettos

44. “When a man only rings you late at night, when he only wants to see you late at night, when he doesn't take you out for dinner, or introduce you to his friends, or spend any time or attention on you, then this is not a relationship. This is sex.” - Jane Green

45. “When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

46. “Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

47. “Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

48. “A woman can tolerate delays knowing they are not denials; she is diligent, and composed. She is not easily irritated like love; she endures all things, beans all things and can be stretched to any limit.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

49. “Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

50. “A responsible woman doesn’t see opportunities and needs and look the other way pretending not to see them rather she gets to work to ensure things are done properly and her man succeeds in his endeavours.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

51. “Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

52. “So be willing to wait. Only embrace a man who has a heart for God's purposes for his life and God's heart for you. Keep hope alive!” - Michelle McKinney Hammond

53. “Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't.” - Sherry Argov

54. “I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything.” - James Baldwin

55. “It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.” - Sherry Argov

56. “Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves” - Sherry Argov

57. “Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.” - Sherry Argov

58. “I know that you and your girls have been told for years on end that you just don’t pass up any opportunities when a man walks your way—he could be The One. But I’m here to tell you that this philosophy is just plain dumb. Women are smart—you all can tell when your friends are lying, you know when your kids are up to no good, co-workers can’t get anything past you atthe job. You’re quick to let each one of them know that you’re not stupid, that you see them coming a mile away, and you’re not going to let them play that game with you. But when it comes to your relationships with the opposite sex, all of that goes out the window; you relinquish your power and lose all control over the situation—cede it to any old man who looks at you twice. Just because he happened to look at you twice.” - Steve Harvey

59. “If you believe someone believe blindly either you get a good relation or a good lesson” - Arun Kumar

60. “I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me.” - Ida Løkås

61. “You see, in every story, it’s not about the ending. It’s about the chapters in between and how you make it through them” - Courtney Giardina

62. “Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

63. “I had sex with Jett because I was attracted to him. Jett hired me because he wanted me. It was lust at first sight.” - J.C. Reed

64. “Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.” - Steve Maraboli

65. “Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

66. “Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice.” - Anyaele Sam Chiyson

67. “Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!” - Sujit Lalwani