Positive Marriage Quotes

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. ~ Robert Breault

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. ~ Orlando Aloysius Battista

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me. ~ Robert Breault

Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. ~ Dave Willis

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love. ~ Larry Christiansen

Couples who make it aren't the ones who never had a reason to get divorced; they are simply the ones who decided early on that their commitment to each other was always going to be bigger than their differences and their flaws. ~ Dave Willis

The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love ... the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength. ~ Timothy Keller

You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me. ~ Celine Dion

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already. ~ Dave Willis

It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also
necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone
noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to
be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular. ~ Frank Pittman

Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another. ~ Frank Pittman

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. ~ Unknown

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside. ~ Frank Pittman

I am in love and out of it I will not go. ~ C.S. Lewis

If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do. ~ Ken Mehlman

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become. ~ Frank Pittman

The heart of marriage is memories. ~ Bill Cosby

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way. ~ Gary Chapman

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy. ~ Robert Breault

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. ~ Joseph Joubert

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ~ Andre Maurois

A happy marriage is the world's best bargain. ~ Orlando Aloysius Battista

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real. ~ C.S. Lewis

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage ...
As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage ~ Orson Scott Card

I'm a combat specialist and marriage counselor. ~ Jarod Kintz

...meanwhile, strength of body and mind are sacrificed to libertine notions of beauty, to the desire of establishing themselves, the only way women can rise in the world - by marriage. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey ... ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them. ~ Donald L. Hicks

The leaves of the trees will stroke your cheeks, The wind will blow through your chest and cleanse your soul, The magical sounds of the earth, animals and the elements will hug your ears, The positive vibrations of the earth will fall asleep next to your heart and the breathtaking beauty of the earth will ease your mind. If you allow it, the earth, in itself, will heal you. ~ Julia McCann

The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent. Love calls you to act when you would really like to wait, and to wait when you would really like to act. Love calls you to stop when you really want to continue and it calls you to continue when you feel like stopping. Love requires you to lead when you really would like to follow, and to follow when you really want to lead. Love again and again calls you away from your instincts and your comfort. Love always requires personal sacrifice. Love calls you to give up your life. ~ Paul David Tripp

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. ~ Bill Cosby

I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant. ~ James Gunn

You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you. ~ Gautama Buddha

Differences of opinion may occur between husband and wife. But one's objective in marriage is never to win an argument, but to build an eternal relationship of love. ~ Russell M. Nelson

There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people. ~ Lily King

I wanted something from him then, this man I'd married. I wanted to dance with him in our living room late at night; I wanted to make love on the floor while a song that shaped all my views of love played in the background. If this was love, if this was marriage, then we should have access to everything those songs promised. We should own that romance. I gathered my courage; I walked over & put my hand on his shoulder, pulled him to his feet, but I knew immediately that i couldn't go through with it. We were both too self-conscious. He did a kind of joke dance, swinging me around with jerky movements, and then he went up to bed, leaving me by myself. And how could I could complain? That was the man I married; he was wonderful in many ways, but he was never going to dance with me in our living room. He wasn't going to come back down the stairs and take me in his arms. Those were just facts I'd have to face. ~ Carolyn Parkhust

It is a blessed gift to witness the beauty of each day. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Happy is the house that shelters a friend. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ~ Louis Mann

I would not want a husband who valued my appearance more than my wit. ~ Michaela MacColl

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. ~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky

This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No obstacle can withstand patience. Wait. You may not think so now, but there will come a time when you will be tempted to run away. Would that be right? Would that be fair? As every matriarch discovers, entire seasons will pass without reward. As your mate's peculiarities add up, what do you do? Wait!
pg 45 ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

I don't get much sauciness, I'm too old for saucy now, but back in the day I think there were a few marriage proposals. And I do use the fact women approach me as a chance to chat them up. They never seem to mind too much. ~ Roger Lloyd-Pack

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language. ~ Anne Geddes

It actually may be that the shadows of the so-called middle-class utopia always cast heavily on children, particularly in their adolescence. And this is so because the middle class is the proprietor and perpetuator of the category of childhood; living within the economic advantage of not needing children to work (or serve as marriage pawns for continued nobility) leads to a conception of childhood innocence. The child is hidden from the world behind the structural walls of family and education. Middle-class parents take on a heavy burden of seeing it as their core vocation to protect and advance their children. But this projecting and advancing appears to always come with tension as the innocent middle-class child turns into the alien middle-class adolescent.[2] ~ Andrew Root

When you change what you believe, you change what you do ... which changes what you get. ~ Odille Rault

Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization. ~ Ann Coulter

At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. ~ Benjamin Cheever

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden. ~ John Milton

I've always been interested in the social conflict of my age, my own time, as well as the result of positive and negative of social change, and the ongoing quest we all have, from the cradle to the grave, for identity. ~ Stephanie Rothman

I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say. ~ Judd Apatow

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. ~ Rita Rudner