Quotes About Partnership

Friends come and go. Employees move on. Your partner is there beside you for the long haul. He deserves your best every day of your life.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.

If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

I learned the hard way that you shouldn't stay with someone because of your past together - what matters more is if you want the same things in the future.

The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to everyone else who's ever read it. The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.

Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together.

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand in fact we should have our arms around one another.

Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

I work closely with Hispanic leadership.

I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.

Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other's work instead of being a hindrance.