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Love And Respect Quotes About Marriage

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

The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.
Fawn Weaver

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Robert C. Dodds

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois

The greatest gift you can give your children is a strong marriage.
Zig Ziglar

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De Angelis

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever.
Nicholas Sparks

A successful marriage isn't the union of two perfect people. It's that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace.
Darlene Schacht

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love And Respect Quotes About Friendship

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is the purest love.
Osho

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard

Love And Respect Quotes About Honesty

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Honesty is the best image.
Tom Wilson

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon

Honesty is the foundation of a relationship. Without honesty, there can be no trust, and without trust, there can be no love.
Unknown

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.
Richard Jeni

Love And Respect Quotes About Equality

I am a feminist because I believe in the equality of all genders, races, and sexual orientations.
Unknown

Love and respect are the keys to a successful relationship, but they must be given equally by both partners.
Unknown

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.
Joss Whedon

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Unknown

In a healthy relationship, both partners should feel valued and respected, regardless of their gender or any other factor.
Unknown

Love is not about gender, it's about two people who care for each other and treat each other with respect.
Unknown

Equality means treating everyone with the same level of respect, regardless of their gender, race, or any other factor.
Unknown

Love is not about power. It's about sharing and mutual respect.
Unknown

Equality is not just a women's issue, it's a human issue. It affects us all.
Unknown

In a relationship, both partners should have equal say and equal respect for each other's opinions and feelings.
Unknown

Love And Respect Quotes About Patience

Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians 13:4

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer

Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki

Love And Respect Quotes About Understanding

The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's the essence of love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Jodie Berndt

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Respect is love in action.
Byron Pulsifer

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Eden Ahbez

Love And Respect Quotes About Support

Love is not just about being there for someone when they need you, it's about being there for them all the time.
Unknown

Support is not just about solving someone's problems, it's about standing by them no matter what.
Unknown

When you love someone, you support them in their dreams and aspirations.
Unknown

True love is about supporting each other through the ups and downs of life.
Unknown

Support is the foundation of any strong relationship.
Unknown

Love is not just a feeling, it's a commitment to support and care for someone.
Unknown

When you truly love someone, you support them even when it's difficult.
Unknown

Support is the key to a successful partnership.
Unknown

Love is not about finding someone who completes you, it's about finding someone who supports you in becoming the best version of yourself.
Unknown

The greatest gift you can give someone is your support.
Unknown

Love And Respect Quotes About Growth

Love is not a matter of counting the years... But making the years count.
Michelle St. Amand

Respect is love in plain clothes.
Frankie Byrne

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Love and respect are what we should teach our children, but the only way to teach them love and respect is to love and respect ourselves.
Brené Brown

Love And Respect Quotes About Communication

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw

The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes

Communication is the fuel that keeps the fire of your relationship burning, without it, your relationship goes cold.
William Paisley

The greatest gift you can give someone is your undivided attention.
Unknown

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most important thing in communication is to feel what is being said and hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker

Communication is not just about words, it's about connecting with the other person on a deeper level.
Unknown

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your relationship.
Unknown

Communication is the key to a healthy relationship. Without it, there is no relationship.
Tony Gaskins

Love And Respect Quotes About Trust

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William P. Young

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 best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen R. Covey

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis

Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
Vanessa Lachey

Trust is the foundation of love, and love is the glue that holds relationships together.
Unknown

Trust is the key to a happy and successful relationship.
Unknown

Trust is the bedrock of any relationship. Without it, the whole thing can come crashing down.
Unknown

Trust is the highest form of intimacy in any relationship.
Unknown

Love And Respect Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Josiah Royce

Love And Respect Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brené Brown

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown

Empathy is the first step in creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

Empathy is the glue that holds relationships together.
Unknown

Love And Respect Quotes About Compassion

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and the deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.
Arthur Jersild

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of our ego and connecting with others.
Dr. Judith Orloff

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.
Brené Brown

Compassion is the foundation of all forms of spiritual practice.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Love And Respect Quotes About Gratitude

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
Rumi

Gratitude is the best attitude.
Author Unknown

Gratitude is the antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented.
Sonja Lyubomirsky

Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Dr. Steve Maraboli

Love And Respect Quotes About Acceptance

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy

Love is not about changing someone. It's about accepting them for who they are.
Unknown

Love is the ability to accept differences.
Unknown

Love is not about finding the right person, but about creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning, but how much love you build till the end.
Jumar Lumapas

Love is not about what we have done or what we will do. It's about accepting each other's flaws and imperfections.
Unknown

Love is not about changing yourself to please someone else. It's about being yourself and finding someone who loves you for who you are.
Unknown

Love is not about finding someone who completes you, but about finding someone who accepts you completely.
Unknown

Love is not about being perfect. It's about accepting each other's imperfections and growing together.
Unknown

Love is not about possession. It's about appreciation.
Unknown

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