Relationship Quotes

"Respect yourself and others will respect you."

Confucius

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

Jackie Robinson

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

"Commitment is an act, not a word."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans."

Peter Drucker

"Distance means so little when someone means so much."

Tom McNeal

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."

François de La Rochefoucauld

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Thomas Fuller

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Thomas Haynes Bayly

"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."

Max Frisch

"In jealousy there is more self-love than love."

François de La Rochefoucauld

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."

Wayne Dyer

"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."

Gabriel García Márquez

"Love is the poetry of the senses."

Honoré de Balzac

"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time."

Madame de Staël

"Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."

Karl Menninger

"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

Louise Hay

"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."

"Love never claims, it ever gives."

"Love is expansion, selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life."

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself."

Kahlil Gibran

"Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, there is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other."

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Ursula K. Le Guin