Marriage Success Quotes

Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

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

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

When our kids are asked by their friends about the success of the longevity of our marriage, they simply joke that Tamar and I have spent so little time together that 'it's really too early to tell' if our marriage will, in fact, succeed.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?

Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.