Here are 140 of the best relationship quotes I could find. I hope you’ll feel inspired and more connected to your loved ones and your friends. After all, what would life be without them?
A relationship where you can be weird together is your best choice. Paulo Coelho
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. Charlotte Brontë
Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world. B. D. Schiers
Never ask, “Who is my real friend?” Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question. Osho
Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship. Osho
When your heart has room for everybody then your heart is full of love. Fred Rogers
Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love, or the lack of it. Fred Rogers
There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on. Leo Christopher
In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. Marcus Aurelius
Stay away from people who makes you feel like you are wasting their time. Paulo Coelho
If you love yourself you love others, if you hate yourself you hate others, because in relationship with others it is only you mirrored. Osho
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Brontë
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now. Byron Katie
The most amazing friends – the ones who make life worth living – tend to be the ones who defy convention. Shane Parrish
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. Mother Teresa
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The Best Relationship Quotes
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. Charles Dickens
My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson
We get so wrapped up in numbers in our society. The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that’s what’s important. Fred Rogers
I’ve come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another… if we care, we can listen. Fred Rogers
When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. Epictetus (Enchiridion)
When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses. Gloria Steinem (My Life on the Road)
You’ll have to drop this desire for attention, this desire for getting sympathy from people. In fact, it is very ugly to desire sympathy from people – it makes you a beggar. Osho
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. Thomas Sowell
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Maya Angelou
Quit wanting them to be the way you want them to be. Just love them. Kamal Ravikant
There are many times when it is better to be kind than clever. Thibaut
Remember to stay away from people who have a problem for every solution. Paulo Coelho
Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things. Paulo Coelho
When you lose a possession, you realize that you valued it too much. When you lose a person, you realize that you didn’t value them enough. Neil Strauss
Eliminate time spent with people who would rather drone on about their misery than hear about your successes. Taylor Burrowes
Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach. Seneca
You should never be afraid of people… such fear can destroy us completely. You’ve simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don’t you? Hermann Hesse (Demian)
We are so different, yet so much the same. Gloria Steinem (My Life on the Road)
We’re human beings; we’re not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it. Noam Chomsky
Never look up to anybody, never look down on anybody. You look them eye to eye. Unknown
We’re often afraid of being vulnerable, but vulnerability creates genuine connection. Gabby Bernstein
We humans definitely need other people to keep us human. Terry Pratchett
So much of life is being present with the people you love. Shane Parrish
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Part 2. Relationship Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Relationship Quotes (Nietzsche, Dalai Lama, Lincoln, etc.)
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Stephen R. Covey
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Maya Angelou
We are like chameleons. We take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must bear up against them and make the best of mankind as they are, since we cannot make them as we wish. George Washington
Genuine friendship is not based on money and power, but on trust, which in turn develops as a result of showing concern for other people’s well-being. In other words, friendship is founded on warm-heartedness. 14th Dalai Lama
I’m Tibetan, I’m Buddhist and I’m the Dalai Lama, but if I emphasize these differences it sets me apart and raises barriers with other people. What we need to do is to pay more attention to the ways in which we are the same as other people. 14th Dalai Lama
The aim of spiritual practice is to become the friend of all beings, concerned and ready and able to help them. 14th Dalai Lama
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln
It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Warren Buffett
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not cling to any one person, not even your most beloved: every person is a prison and also a hiding place. Friedrich Nietzsche
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. C. S. Lewis
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. Charles Dickens
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Short Relationship Quotes
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Avoid boring people. Josh Wolfe
People aren’t projects. Bob Goff
Compliment people behind their back. Sahil Lavingia
#1 relationship rule: over communicate. Carlos Del Valle
Without relationships, we have nothing. Esther Wojcicki
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Henry Winkler
Give without a sense of superiority or charity. Unknown
Trust yourself, you will start to trust others. Santosh Kalwar
Nobody raises his reputation by lowering others. Tim Fargo
Stop networking, start making friends. Sahil Lavingia
You don’t know yourself – how can you know others. Osho
Never chase a person running away from themselves. Thibaut (@Kpaxs)
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Frida kahlo
Time spent with people you can no longer trust is wasted. @orangebook
Of each other, we should be kind while there is still time. Philip Larkin
When you love someone you want to take care of that person as you would take care of yourself. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Inspirational Relationship Quotes
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. Osho
Become what you want to see in the world and it will be so. If you want an amazing relationship with your partner, be an amazing partner. If you want people to be thoughtful and kind, be thoughtful and kind. Small changes in your actions change your entire world. Shane Parrish
What I really would like said about me is that I dared to love. By love, I mean that condition in the human spirit so profound it encourages us to develop courage and build bridges, and then to trust those bridges and cross the bridges in attempts to reach other human beings. Maya Angelou
Be kind. Right now, right here, in your own life, in whatever way you can. Just be kind. There’s so much going on that we cannot solve. So many people we cannot help. So much cruelty we can do nothing about. But we can be kind to one another. That’s a step we can all take today. Jason Garner
As you improve, you’ll find yourself more disappointed with those around you. To avoid this, be hard on yourself but understanding of others. Ed Latimore
We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated. It is in this manner that we can and must reduce the suffering that poisons the world. It’s asking a lot. It’s asking for everything. Jordan Peterson (12 Rules for Life)
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? George Eliot
Find someone who makes reality better than dreams and do your best to deserve them. Shane Parrish
The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna
If you think something positive about someone, you should tell them. It is the easiest and cheapest way to create value that exists in the world. Justin Kan
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it. Chuck Palahniuk
Whenever we see something which would benefit others, no matter how small, then we should do it. Tai Situ Rinpoche
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Funny And Surprising Relationship Quotes
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from. Mae West
All relationships go through hell, real relationships get through it. Unknown
Pointless and disingenuous questions are the hallmarks of socialization. James Pierce
Everyone remembers the first time they thought an old friend wanted to catch up, but it was really a pyramid scheme pitch. Ed Latimore
Surround yourself with really good friends. Have people around you who cheer you on, and applaud you, and support you, and are honest with you, and tell you, you know, when your breath stinks. Kamala Harris
Everyone is normal until you get to know them. Brent Beshore
The most painful moments are not those we spend with uninteresting people; rather, they are those spent with uninteresting people trying hard to be interesting. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. Toni Morrison (Beloved)
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. Mark Twain
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Deep Relationship Quotes
The more you judge, the more you separate yourself. Naval Ravikant
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t consider how many you can please, but whom. Publius Syrus
If you attack someone’s identity, you shut down all conversations with them. Naval Ravikant
If you gossip about your enemies, you gossip about your friends. Shane Parrish
Trust yourself more and others less. Robert Greene
We love people not so much for the good they’ve done us, as for the good we’ve done them. Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
Vulnerability is the essence of connection and connection is the essence of existence. Leo Christopher
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment)
Many argue; not many converse. Louisa May Alcott
Comparing yourself to others is a dangerous game. Either you feel like shit or grow arrogant. Better to compare yourself to your old self and no one else. Ed Latimore
What kills peer relationships is hierarchy. Since hierarchy emerges automatically in groups, avoid crowds. Michael
How you make others feel about themselves, says a lot about you. Unknown
Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. Alain de Botton (Status Anxiety)
Sometimes the best way to “manage” a relationship is to end it. Too few get this. Fateh Singh
Selfish people will never get to experience the joy of human connection. Carlos Del Valle
We are interested in others, when they are interested in us. Publius Syrus
Relationship is a process of self-discovery, a wider and deeper understanding; relationship is a constant adjustment in self-discovery. Jiddu Krishnamurti
We treat those who don’t mean anything to us far better than those who mean everything to us. Thibaut
Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. Robert Holden
The only relationship we can have is the relationship we have with the “self.” Everything else is a reflection of that relationship. Iyanla Vanzant
Every human interaction is composed of: need, competition, or war. Kapil Gupta
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. Haruki Murakami
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
The ones who refer to you repeatedly as “my friend” are most likely to betray you. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What is the true significance of relationship? Is it not a process of self-revelation? Jiddu Krishnamurti
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See also: How to Have a Better Relationship (nytimes.com)
Wise Relationship Quotes (Words of Wisdom)
Be human: accept the other person’s humanity with all the frailty humanity is prone to. Osho
Watch people like a hawk, and when they do something good, tell them. Jordan Peterson
Don’t return it, give it away. Don’t keep fixing it, create something new. Don’t force the relationship, find someone else. Naval Ravikant
Become more loving and more silent. It is a difficult task! Be loving to others, and when you are alone be silent. Osho
When love is a relationship, it creates misery. When love is a state of being, it creates bliss. Osho
If your relationship isn’t right, have the courage and respect to tell your partner what you’re feeling. You really have three options: fix it, leave, or accept the status quo. Shane Parrish
We don’t need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane. Alain de Botton (The Course of Love: A Novel)
Successful relationships start by giving up control, giving up the need to be loved or wanted or right all the time. Mark Manson
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees. Leo Tolstoy
Forget trying to change people. Either change yourself or change your environment. Or both. Ed Latimore
The secret to a happy relationship is two happy people. Naval Ravikant
The quality of your life is proportional to the quality of people in your life. The quality of people you attract depends on the quality of your own person. It’s a two way process. To attract better people become a better person. To become better seek the company of better people. @TheAncientSage
No one changes unless they want to. Not if you beg them. Not if you shame them. Not if you use reason, emotion, or tough love. There’s only one thing that makes someone change: their own realization that they need to do it. And there’s only one time it will happen: when they decide they’re ready. Lori Deschesne (tinybuddha.com)
All top level relationships require radical honesty. Pat Stedman
In relationship there must be affection, consideration, adjustment, self-denial, yielding; not to conquer but to live happily. Jiddu Krishnamurti
To understand you, I must have no preconceived formulations about you, no prejudice; I must be open, without judgment, without comparison. Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you can love all people for who they are, not for what they can give you, you are a wealthy being. Iyanla Vanzant
Don’t create expectations around things you don’t control. One of those things: other people’s actions. Justin Kan
You are as good as how nice you are to people you don’t have to be nice to. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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See also: Tips for Building a Healthy Relationship (helpguide.org)
Part 3. Conclusion
If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye. Gloria Steinem (My Life on the Road)
Mutually caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. We need to accept the fact that it’s not in the power of any human being to provide all these things all the time. For any of us, mutually caring relationships will also always include some measure of unkindness and impatience, intolerance, pessimism, envy, self-doubt, and disappointment. Fred Rogers
Call to action: Watch How to Be a Good Friend (YouTube video by The School of Life) or read All Successful Relationships Need Work And Here’s Why (thriveglobal.com)
Table Of Contents
Part 1
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Best Relationships Quotes
Part 2
Relationships Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Funny
Deep
Wise
Part 3
Conclusion
