Laura Bush Quotes

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.

The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.

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.

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

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.

Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

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.

When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.