Quotes About Partnership

Meet with several accountants, attorneys, and other service providers to get a feel for them and their practice.

Of course, your advisory team can only take you so far.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

It's not the quality of the man, it's the quality of the team.

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

No one succeeds alone. No one.

An accountability partner provides frank, objective feedback on your performance, creates an ongoing expectation for productive progress, and can provide critical brainstorming or even expertise when needed.

Marriage is a good thing, and being intentional about your pursuit of it is commendable, not shameful.

Getting married is agreeing to grow together, into each other, to virtually commingle our souls so that we share a unique and rare bond.

How much would every marriage change if we pursued absolute benevolence over our own comfort, happiness, and self-interest?

you don't marry a position. You marry a person.

Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.

We realize it's not about what we get out of our marriage but about what we become in our marriage.

Yes, they think that. They regard the intention of loyalty to a partnership for mutual help, for the preservation of chastity, and for the transmission of life, as something lower than a storm of emotion.8

Marriage creates a situation in which our desire to be served and coddled can be replaced with a nobler desire to serve others — even to sacrifice for others.

But ask God to help you. Partner with him to build up and encourage the person with whom you've chosen to spend the rest of your life. Ask. "How can I love my spouse today like he [or she] has never been or ever will be loved?" When we focus on what we can do, it's amazing how little time we have left to become consumed by our disappointments.

People who marry well aren't lucky in love. They're intentional in their path.

Getting married is agreeing to grow together, into each other, to virtually commingle our souls so that we share a unique and rare bond. When we stop doing that, we have committed fraud against our partner; we made a commitment we're not willing to live up to. GETTING MARRIED IS AGREEING TO GROW TOGETHER, TO COMMINGLE OUR SOULS SO THAT WE SHARE A UNIQUE AND RARE BOND.

Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one. Helen Rowland

We realize it's not about what we get out of our marriage but about what we become in our marriage.

We're not married in a carefree garden of Eden; we're married in the midst of many responsibilities that compete for our energy.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.