There’s always that “perfect” couple we’re jealous of. But there is no reason for envy and jealousy. No couple is perfect. And they don’t have to be. We are all unique as individuals and there’s no reason not to be unique as a couple as well.
To find some inspiration for your couple’s goals, I went through thousands of quotes on Goodreads to curate only the finest quotes that are worthy of sharing with your friends and family.
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Relationship Goals Quotes 1-10
“Relationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”
― Helen Keller
“People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“In this story
Relationship Goals Quotes
I am the poet
You’re the poetry.”
― Arzum Uzun
“When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
― Steve Maraboli
“I’m done. I don’t need anything more out of life. I have you, and that’s enough.”
― Alessandra Torre
“If you want to know what a truly healthy relationship is, it’s one where both people wake up every morning and say, ‘I choose to be with this person.'”
― Robert Morrow
“On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.”
― Ellen J. Barrier
“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
― Criss Jami
“Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.”
― Alessandra Torre
“Relationships: If you put up with it, you’re going to end up with it. Set the standard you want and don’t settle for less.”
― Steve Maraboli
Relationship Goals Quotes 11-20
“To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
― Dave Meurer
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“Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be…”
― Eckhart Tolle
“One’s not half of two; two are halves of one.”
― E.E. Cummings
“But you’re so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine”
― Jack Johnson
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
― George Eliot
“Take my hand and we’ll make it – I swear”
― Bon Jovi
“Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.”
― Nicholas Sparks
Relationship Goals Quotes 21-30
“He is the cheese to my macaroni.”
― Diablo Cody
“In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.”
― Suzy Kassem
“My soul will always find its way to yours because home is where the heart is.”
― Truth Devour
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“Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even.”
― Francesca Lia Block
“because being with you makes perfect sense”
― Tim McGraw
“On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.”
― Ellen J. Barrier
“Love is a good thing on a bad day, when the last thing you want is to be cheered up.”
― Chad Sugg
“I’ve tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody’s supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind”
― Deborah Cox
“The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.”
― Teresa Mummert
“Why be alone when we can be together baby
You can make my life worthwhile
And I can make you start to smile”
― Mr. Big
Relationship Goals Quotes 31-40
“What if every moment of conflict is a chance to make your relationship even stronger?”
― Crismarie Campbell
“We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.”
― Parker J. Palmer
“Even before we met and long after we’re both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I’m forever and ever in love with you.”
Couple Goals Quotes
― Crystal Woods
“Traveling is the best thing any couple can do. That’s how we had the idea of the honeymoon. Newlywed couples going to a new place on their own so that all they could have is each other.”
― Salil Jha
“A happy relationship isn’t about how it looks to others but how it feels to you.”
― Lebo Grand
“Compromising is the only path that all happy couples travel on.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
“… perhaps the very best season of your relationship isn’t behind you. Perhaps it’s still in your future, still yet to come, waiting to be created.”
― Crismarie Campbell
“A friend recently asked me, ‘How’s your life?’ Without hesitation, I replied, ‘She’s happy, in love, and doing quite well.”
― A.K. Kuykendall
“The first step towards love is to listen to your love.”
― Amit Kalantri
“Some couples were just meant to be together.”
― Anthony T. Hincks
Relationship Goals Quotes 41-50
“Even the strongest feelings expire, but a couple that has learned how to rely on their OWN sensuality never runs out of juice. As long as sensuality continues to burn within and between the two of us, we can weather any storm.”
― Lebo Grand
“One of the best things you can do for yourself and your relationship is to learn how to take control of your emotions.”
― Michael Barbarulo
“A healthy relationship is one in which love enriches you; not imprisons you.”
― Steve Maraboli
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“And at the moment, I didn’t think there was anything more beautiful than lying beneath the stars, with the person who held my heart.”
― Aisling Magic
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.”
― Roman Payne
“But you are still you I’m still me
And we are still we”
― Richard L. Ratliff
“What if we treated the ones we loved the same way we treated ourselves?”
― Rain Cooper
“In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker
“I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.”
― Katie McGarry
“Couples who play together, stay together.”
― Kris Garden
Relationship Goals Quotes 51-60
“Love is deep spiritual affection in two souls but one spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“There’s a thing they’ve figured out about love. Scientifically. They’ve done studies to find out what keeps couples together. Do you know what it is? It isn’t getting along. Isn’t having money, or children, or a similar outlook on life. It’s just checking in with each other. Doing little kindnesses for each other. At breakfast, you pass the jam. Or, on a trip to New York City, you hold hands for a second in a smelly subway elevator. You ask “How was your day?” and pretend to care. Stuff like that really works.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides
“I could stay here forever interrupting our talking with kissing, interrupting our kissing with talking.”
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― Nicola Yoon
“The best couples share the load, divide the grief, and add to the peace, thereby multiplying joy.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
“Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.”
― Julieanne O’Connor
“It takes two to manage the relationship, but it takes one to begin the change.”
― Sheri E Ragland
“Love is when you daydream about the other with open eyes and fantasize about with other even with closed eyes.”
― Shubham Raj
“If you’re trying to change someone you love, you don’t love them. It’s the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you’d miss the most. That’s the stuff you can’t replace. Everything else is easy to come by.”
― Crystal Woods
“A couple in love is like a pair of scissors. Two useless pieces of metal, until they are inextricably connected at the core so that they can move together as one and accomplish great things.”
― Jack Canfield
“The happiest, healthiest, and longest lasting relationships happen when each partner is secure and whole within themselves.”
― Pamela Cummins
Relationship Goals Quotes 61-70
“To me, the simplest gift that a husband or a wife can do for their partner is to remind them of their precious visions, goals and dreams. What a gift that is to have a voice of reason right in your corner when you sometimes need a little nudge to get back on track. To have a team player to cheer you on and to support your efforts is indeed a massive present from the universe. Whomever has such a gift should surely treasure and protect it for all its worth. It’s worth is invaluable to the world.”
― Sereda Aleta Dailey
“If you search for imperfections, you’ll find them”
― Jose Enincas
“Love is having someone to do nothing with.”
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― Melanie Cusick-Jones
“You don’t have to be afraid of falling. Just close your eyes, let go, and know that I’ll always be here with arms outstretched, ready to catch you.”
― S.L. Jennings
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins
“I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
― Nicholas Sparks
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Relationship Goals Quotes 71-80
“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach
“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
― Candace Bushnell
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller
Couple Goals Quotes
“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami
“Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside”
― Sarah Dessen
“Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.”
― Christopher Pike
“The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”
― Pandora Poikilos
“Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”
― William P. Young
Relationship Goals Quotes 81-90
“We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
― Cornel West
“Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”
― Steve Maraboli
Relationship Goals Quotes
“You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.”
― Alain de Botton
“Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.”
― Flavia Weedn
“Caring about someone isn’t complicated. It isn’t easy. But it isn’t complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”
― Jim Butcher
“Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
― Audrey Niffenegger
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
― Charles Dickens
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss
Relationship Goals Quotes 91-100
“I know I’m not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I’ll be forever in your heart. ”
― Crystal Woods
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
― Mark Twain
Couple Goals Quotes
“How would your life be different if… You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day…You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.”
― Steve Maraboli
“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”
― Emily Giffin
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse’s perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, “I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?” We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.”
― Gary Chapman
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato
“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”
― Steve Maraboli
Relationship Goals Quotes 101-110
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
― Jodi Picoult
“A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.”
― Vironika Tugaleva
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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett
“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“What’s meant to be will always find a way”
― Trisha Yearwood
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Relationship Goals Quotes 111-120
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
― Gillian Anderson
“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.”
― Richard Wright
Couple Goals Quotes
“In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. ”
― Tom Brokaw
“He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great.”
― Greg Behrendt
“We are one of those couples I used to watch, thinking to myself that I’d never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.”
― Emily Giffin
“Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road
late at night.”
― Kim Addonizio
“Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.”
― Amit Ray
“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
― Santosh Kalwar
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
Relationship Goals Quotes 121-130
“On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.”
― Ellen J. Barrier
“I will never claim to know what you are thinking. I only hope I am on your mind.”
― Amanda Mosher
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski
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“my only complaints are two:
that I didn’t make myself ready
for you sooner in life, that
I can’t give you better,
Love you more.”
― Jan Beatty
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker
“You’ve got an awfully kissable mouth.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
― Tom Robbins
“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”
― Scott Adams
“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer
Relationship Goals Quotes 131-140
“Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
― Veronica Roth
“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”
― Lawrence Hill
“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”
― Roy T. Bennett
Couple Goals Quotes
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”
― A. A. Milne
“Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
― Lemony Snicket
“There is something beautiful about watching two people lovingly act silly together; behaving as though no one else existed.”
― Steve Maraboli
“You never know who’s waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might be. But let me just say, a healthy relationship requires SACRIFICE and DEDICATION.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett
“I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.”
― Michael Summers
Relationship Goals Quotes 141-150
“Ain’t No Drama Like Bedroom Drama”
― Renata Johnson
“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”
― Mitch Albom
“Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it’s also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?”
― Grace Helbig
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“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
― Shannon Alder
“I always watch you. You consume my every thought.”
― M. A. Stacie
“Faith doesn’t get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett
“A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.”
― Matt Dunn
“Even before we met and long after we’re both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I’m forever and ever in love with you.”
― Crystal Woods
“This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.”
― Aberjhani
“The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.”
― Steve Maraboli
