Relationship Advice Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old relationship advice quotes, relationship advice sayings, and relationship advice proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Don't assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions. Turcois Ominek
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
If you cannot be yourself in a relationship, you no longer have one. Shya Kane
There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards. Jesse Metcalfe
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. Joyce Meyer
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Barbara Johnson
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. Anthony J. D'Angelo
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. Deepak Chopra
The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. Tony Robbins
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. Alexandra Penney
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
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
You can't have a relationship without any fights, but you can make your relationship worth the fight. unknown
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. Joyce Brothers
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 Covey
The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself. Diane Von Furstenberg
It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. Gustave Flaubert
I believe in love the verb, not the noun. Greg Behrendt
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. Steve Maraboli
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. Mandy Hale
Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called 'perfection,' which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of. Dan Pearce
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
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love...but don't put your life on hold waiting for love. Mandy Hale
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. William Paul Young
Those have the most power to hurt us that we love. John Fletcher
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin
Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel
Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. Rainer Maria Rilke