70 Marriage Quotes On Communication, Hard Times and Teamwork

Looking for inspirational marriage quotes for all phases of the journey with your partner? These marriage quotes will inspire you to express your love and passion and stick together – for better or for worse.

When we get married and we say our vows, they almost invariably include the phrase, “for better or for worse”. But what do people really mean by this?

Often, it feels like they assume that things will always be, “for better or for better,” and never consider how far they are willing to go if they are really challenged.

What if one of you loses your job for an extended length of time and the other must cover all household expenses?

What if you cannot have the children naturally that you always assumed you could? What if one of you comes down with a serious or eventually fatal illness?

What if there is a case of infidelity, but the partner is genuinely remorseful and wants to work on the marriage?

What if the image you had for your life and your marriage is changed in an instant?

These are some deep questions to ask and be honest with ourselves about.

Need some inspiration?

Here are several marriage quotes, marriage sayings, and marriage proverbs that might help give us some much-needed perspective and encouragement.

Inspirational Marriage Quotes About Love and Commitment

1.) “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” – Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu

2.) “Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.

“Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other.

“Now there is no more loneliness, for each of you will be companion for the other.

“Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.

“Go now to your dwelling place to begin the days of your life together.

“May your days together be good and long upon the earth.” – Apache Blessing

3.) “I first learned the concept of non-violence in my marriage.” – Gandhi

4.) “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

5.) “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLoughlin

6.) “My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.” – Joyce Brothers

7.) “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh

8.) “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret

9.) “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen

10.) “My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates

Marriage Quotes About Teamwork

11.) “Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” – Sam Levenson

12.) “Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.” – Joanne Woodward

13.) “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” – Dave Meur

14.) “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

15.) “The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.” – Sir Harold George Nicolson

16.) “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” – I Corinthians 13:7

17.) “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” – Leo Tolstoy

18.) “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” – Will Ferrell

19.) “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational Marriage Quotes for Him and Her

20.) “When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen in her face.” – Goethe

21.) “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Robert Quillen

22.) “I didn’t marry you because you were perfect. I didn’t even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine.

Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn’t a house that protected them; and it wasn’t our love that protected them – it was that promise.” – Thornton Wilder

23.) “The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.” – Robert C. Dodds

24.) “Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.” – Joseph Barth

25.) “Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.” – David Wilkerson

26.) “There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye, keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” – Homer

27.) “I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other’s gaps.” – Rocky

28.) “You come to love not by finding the right person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

29.) “You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” – Chandler proposing to Monica on ‘Friends’

Funny Marriage Quotes About Communication

30.) “As for his secret to staying married: ‘My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.’” – Jon Bon Jovi

31.) “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford

32.) “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde

33.) “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther

34.) “One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall back in love again.” – Judith Viorst

35.) “Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths.  No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.” – Mark Twain

36.) “More marriages might survive if the partners realize that sometimes, the better comes after the worse.” – Doug Larson

Marriage quotes about happiness and positivity

37.) “Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.” – Fawn Weaver

38.) “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” – Julia Child

39.) “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Maurois

40.) “Health is the first wealth, the second one is the happy marriage.” – Unknown

41.) “Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.” –Melina Kanakaredes

42.) “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” —Frederick Keonig

43.) “A happy marriage is the world’s best bargain.”  – O.A. Battista

44.) “Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend every night of the week.” – Christie Cook

45.) “A marriage is a gift. It should be opened up and enjoyed.” – Greg Evans

46.) “Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert

Positive marriage quotes

47.) “Marriage is a commitment– a decision to do, all through life, that which will express your love for one’s spouse.”
–Herman H. Kieval

48.) “If I get married, I want to be very married.”– Audrey Hepburn

49.)  “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”– Mignon McLaughlin

50.) “Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.”—Stephen King, Bag of Bones

51.) “People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”- Paul Newman

52.) “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”-Dave Meurer

53.) “Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.”-Imogene Stubbs

54.) “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”-William Lyon Phelps

Beautiful marriage quotes

55.) “Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert

56.) “When we got married I told my wife ‘If you leave me, I’m going with you.’ And she never did.”— James Fineous McBride

57.) “To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.”— Ogden Nash

58.) “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”— Leo Tolstoy

59.) “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” – Benjamin Franklin 

60.) “Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.” – Evelyn Hendrick

61.) “A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.” ― Anne Lamott

62.) “Marriage is a huge investment: of time, of energy and of emotion. Protect and keep contributing to your investment.” – Karen Gordon

Other inspirational marriage quotes

63.) “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

64.) “Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.” – St. Jerome

65.) “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” ― Martha Gellhorn

66.) “The older theory was, marry an older man because they’re more mature. But the new theory is men don’t mature. Marry a younger one.”— Rita Rudner

67.) “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” ― Socrates

68.) “Marriage is a form of discipline involving two people committing to a certain lifestyle and set of boundaries.” – David Khalil

69.) “Marriage, at its core, is all about respect for the other person – and respect goes both ways.” – Dr. Kevin Leman

70.) “Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.” – Frank Pittman

What did you think of these marriage quotes?

How often in life do we find that the greatest rewards are just after the point when we almost gave up? If you are willing to work hard, and to not give up on love, you may find greater rewards than you had ever imagined.

How did you find these marriage quotes? Do you have any other inspirational quotes to add? Let us know in the comment section below.

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