Denis Waitley Quotes

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Don't beg, don't threaten and don't assume you're always right.

It's been 32 years of learning to communicate. We have had ups and downs.

Conflict, when handled correctly, strengthens.

Young and older people need to learn relationships take time and effort.

Joy and happiness don't strengthen relationships - difficulty does.

You have to have a patience for relationships.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.