Successful Marriage Quotes

I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the tingles. Those warm, excited feelings, the chill bumps, that sense of acceptance, the excitement of the touch that make up the tingles serve as the cherry on top of the sundae. But you cannot have a sundae with only the cherry. ~ Gary Chapman

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor. ~ Deborah Kerr

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. ~ Carson Daly

In this town, a successful marriage is one that lasts longer than ice. ~ Lois Greiman

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married. ~ Rob Lowe

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person. ~ Carrie Snow

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. ~ Billy Sunday

There are two secrets to a successful marriage. The first is having a husband who makes you laugh. The second is never telling your husband what you're laughing at. ~ John Hartnett

My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage. ~ Kangana Ranaut

It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you couldn't live without. ~ Elizabeth Palmer

Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It's a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves. ~ Joseph Campbell

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much. ~ Colin Chapman

Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price. ~ Spencer W. Kimball

The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime ~ Gary Chapman

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It has always been my opinion," Bea said musingly, "that there can be worse kinds of infidelity than the merely sexual. I'm a simple woman with a very simple outlook on life. I've always found that things work out best if you keep to certain simple rules. Right down the line. And one of the first rules for a successful marriage is loyalty to your partner. Total loyalty. ~ Emma Darcy

Let's shift from moralizing about and lamenting divorce to understanding that a successful marriage, no matter the length, is one that contributes to knowing ourselves better and evolving into more loving and compassionate people. ~ Deb Purdy

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words Yes, dear. Whatever you want. ~ Patrick Dempsey

A successful marriage is coalition governance that has many compromises and sacrifices. ~ Marcus Khaleeq

Great deal of stress is placed on the importance of humour in the modern relationship. Everything will be all right, we are led to believe, as long as you can make each other laugh, rendering a successful marriage as, in effect, fifty years of improv. To someone who felt in need of fresh new material, as I did during that long, dehydrated night of the soul, this was a cause for concern. I had always enjoyed making Connie laugh, it was satisfying and reassuring because laughter, I suppose, ~ David Nicholls

A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation. ~ Anna Quindlen

Successful marriage was a balancing act - that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation - ~ Stephen King

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. ~ Helen Rowland

I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage. ~ Sonam Kapoor

Clearly the key to having a long and successful marriage would be to have a non-lethal heart attack every three months or so ~ David Nicholls

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden. ~ Homer

Magazines and talk shows are filled with people who say that a successful # marriage is hard and requires a lot of work. But to # soulmates , their harmony often feels effortless, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to be completely at ease in a # relationship . ~ Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility. ~ T.F. Hodge

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ~ Harold Nicolson

I'm doing pretty well. If you don't get married, you can't get divorced. Why couldn't we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through? ~ Adam Levine

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. ~ Andrew Sullivan

A successful marriage needs much more than, love, care, and feelings. A woman can choose to be totally submissive in a marriage, like in a patriarchal set-up where she will have a happy married life, but not guaranteed if she will be happy or not. Or she can decide on what makes her happy and choose that life. Marriage is not about the happiness of one person at the cost of other. ~ Sanjeev Himachali

When you read as many books as Klaus Baudelaire, you are going to learn a great deal of information that might not become useful for a long time. You might read a book that would teach you all about the exploration of outer space, even if you do not become an astronaut until you are eighty years old. You might read a book about how to preform tricks on ice skates, and then not be forced to preform these tricks for a few weeks. You might read a book on how to have a successful marriage, when the only women you will ever love has married someone else and then perished one terrible afternoon. ~ Lemony Snicket

If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love. ~ Gary Chapman

Think to have a successful marriage, you need two very good forgivers. ~ David Frost

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most. ~ Nancy Pelosi

Franz's domineering father expected his son to take up a profitable business career that would ensure social advancement for the family, as well as a successful marriage promising the same. ~ Franz Kafka

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times
always with the same person. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

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

It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage. ~ Peter S. Beagle

Learning how to fight properly and deciding what to fight about are two of the secrets to a successful marriage. It usually comes down to the "line of respect" one way or the other. ~ James C. Dobson

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. ~ Saul Alinsky

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. ~ Linda McCartney

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last ~ Samuel Johnson

Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples. ~ Lewis Howard Latimer

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. ~ Kurt Lewin

If I was so apprehensive of marriage, then perhaps being caught wouldn't be the death of me. It might very well be my rebirth. ~ Kerri Maniscalco

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Love is the fruit of a sacred-soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage ~ Robin Jones Gunn

It is noteworthy that the pro-Israeli lobby was established, according to the declared aims of its founder, to eliminate pro-Arab influence in the State Department. This particular mission was accomplished, it seems, not so much by the lobby's effort as by the successful endeavors of the Christian Zionists. ~ Noam Chomsky

Self-confidence is the most important characteristic of successful people. ~ Katie Couric

We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselves that freedom. ~ Teresa Collins

If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble. ~ Joseph Cook

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. ~ Peter L. Bergen

Going home, it's what everybody's trying to do from the day they're born to the day they die, but going home together - that's marriage. ~ Fannie Heaslip Lea

My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take. ~ Jerry Hall

Will you marry me, my darling ?
Do I have options, you bastard ? ~ Toba Beta

I know who I married, too. You're in me. When I touch you, your flesh communicates with my bones. ~ Tayari Jones

The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again! ~ Swami Vivekananda

There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition. ~ Moby

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. ~ Jane Smiley

But the truth is, real love denies self to give those we love God's best. So I said no to Collin and yes to God, and I truly believe that's why our marriage is so wonderful today. Because the Bible is clear - God honors those who honor him. ~ Julie Lessman

The industrial age has transformed our material well-being, but these improvements have come at the cost of our beliefs: belief in our special place in the universe; belief in an omnipresent god; belief in country and community; belief in monogamy and marriage, and belief in our values. What, then, holds up the foundations of society when these beliefs finally fall away? ~ Sean A. Culey

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse. ~ Carl Honore

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. ~ Nikola Tesla

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture. ~ Peter Farb

It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow, because they have to meet the challenge every moment - and with no security. They have to create an inner phenomenon. With security you need not bother to create anything; the society helps. ~ Rajneesh

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~ Isadora Duncan

I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their house, consenting adults should be able to do. This is America. It's a free society, but it doesn't mean we have to redefine traditional marriage. ~ George W. Bush

The right age for marriage is thirty-seven in men, eighteen in women. We ~ Bertrand Russell

Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories. ~ Frederick Reines

Be self-responsible. Be less dependent on other people. Aim at being the most responsible person you can be. Read about great, successful leaders. Learn to think great thoughts and work to be an excellent person. ~ Mark F. LaMoure

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over. ~ Toni Braxton

And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore. ~ Thomas Hardy

On the eve of our marriage, there might have been good reason to really ask, "What is marriage?" Is it the impression and expectation that this man can make me happy - can be a savior that helps me forget the tragedy of my parents' failed relationship as well as my own as his child? What is certain is that marriage was not to be a commitment or covenant. ~ H. Kirk Rainer

Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage. ~ Neil Clark Warren

Love so pure, love so noble! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch. ~ Maryon Pearson

You could argue they'd lost their way, in their choices, their work, their marriage. But the truth was, there wasn't any way. There was just day after day, small stuff, idle conversation, scheduling. And then after a couple of decades it somehow added up to something, for good or for ill or for both. ~ Anna Quindlen

I want a happy marriage and whatever it takes to achieve that. But I think the main prerequisite would have to be respect. He would have to respect me and vice-versa. And, that would be more important than being in love. I think respect really goes a long way. And he would have to keep me happy. And he'd have to be very, very, secure. ~ Shilpa Shetty

Dating is never mentioned in the Bible, not once.
I'm not saying that dating's a sin or that dating's evil. That's not what this book is about. What I am saying is that if we look to Scripture for specific answers on dating we're not going to find any. That's not a problem, though, because it has a lot to say about marriage, and when we figure out why God created marriage, we will figure out a lot about dating in return. ~ Cole Ryan

The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth. ~ Homer

I trust my wife's judgement ... That's what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose. ~ Deborah Harkness