Bruce Arians Quotes

I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

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.

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.

If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

Everyone knows marriage is tough.

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.