Good Relationship Quotes

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not planning to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

A good relationship is a competition of generosity.

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

I've got a magnificent relationship with Leo (Messi) and Ney (Neymar). They drive the team, with Andres Iniesta as well - what a player. You know if you have a good relationship with them off the pitch it will be that way on the pitch too. They took it as a sign that I had come to help them, not to compete with them.

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ..and have a good relationship with the community.

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.

You may have good relationships and you may have bad. You just have to roll with it and truly believe, and not be cynical. But, it's hard. You go through four relationships where you're not happy and you've been cheated on, or whatever - and I'm not saying this has happened to me - but you have to still believe.

Well, I knew instantly when I met my wife what a good relationship it was, compared with what I had been doing for the previous 20-odd years. She is my buddy, my partner, my friend. And part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."

If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That is another myth that we have to throw off, so that we can get into what I call Reality.

I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.

People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.

In my courses I encourage people to bring their creativity to bear on six personal challenges - discovering purpose and career, dealing with time and stress issues, developing and maintaining good relationships, achieving personal/professional balance or synergy in life, finding true prosperity, and bringing one's own creativity into the business and life. Unless people are continually dealing with these challenges, they are not bringing out their best and are not of much use to anyone, particularly themselves and their organizations.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.

If something good was happening in my life, I'd call my mom to let her know. If something bad was happening, she'd be somebody whose advice I would seek out. We had a very good relationship, but she drove me crazy, all the time. But, she drove me crazy in a loving way.

I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that.

Position yourself to succeed first by building good relationships with the right people; and then put your effort and expertise behind that!

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.