267 Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes (Love)

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The Strength of Love in Marriage

I would rather feel your breath on the back of my neck than have all the riches in the world. Husband and Wife Inspirational QuotesPin

I would rather feel your breath on the back of my neck than have all the riches in the world.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make not just on your wedding day, but over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. Barbara De Angelis
Just when I think that it is impossible to love you any more than I already do, you prove me wrong.
A happy marriage doesn’t mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you’ve chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both. Fawn Weaver
Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always. Fawn Weaver
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. Robert Breault
Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. When you come back from work, she’s there. You fall asleep, she’s there. You eat dinner, she’s there. You know? I mean, I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s not. Everybody Loves Raymond
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. Angelita Lim
A good husband wipes her tears, but a great husband listens to the story of why she’s crying.
You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you. Richard Needham
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. Rumi
A married life dies down when both the partners stop sharing their feelings with each other.
A great marriage doesn’t happen because of the love a husband and wife had in the beginning; it happens when they continue building their love until the end.
In marriage, when we honor and celebrate each other, we’re freed up to be the best people we can be. Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott
Your attitude either damages or strengthens your relationship.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou
Our journey isn’t perfect but it’s ours and I’ll stick with you until the end.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deepburning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee
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
Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story. Jennifer Smith
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will. Elaine Davis
Marriage is the virtuous exploration of love in its purest form and pleasure in its highest state. Fawn Weaver
Affection is when you see someone’s strengths; love is when you accept someone’s flaws. One Day
Sexiness wears thin after a while, and beauty fades. But to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, now that’s a real treat. JoAnne Woodward
Relationship ends when you stop doing the cute little things.
I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you. Charlotte Brontë
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret
We were together even when we were apart. Shannon A. Thompson
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, Ruth and I are happily incompatible.’ Billy Graham Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhowthis is a human offering that can border on miraculous. Elizabeth Gilbert
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. Tom Mullen
We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe

Sparks of Romance that Keep the Flame Alive

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. William Lyon Phelps
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
It takes an entire life to say goodbye.
A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. The Beatles
My loving husband’s best attribute? He has terrific taste in women, marrying the best wife of them all. You made the right choice, and I love you all the more for it.
Show me a man who is smiling from ear-to-ear and living a beautiful life, and I’ll show you a man who is grateful for what he has and utterly in love with his wife. Fawn Weaver
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever. Lord Alfred Tennyson
Where there is love, there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
Enjoy the little things in life… For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Breault
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. Ruth Bell Graham
There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier? Mary Oliver
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to be loved by the person you love is everything.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what’s still worse, love any woman in the world but her. Samuel Richardson
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Jane Austen
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning
Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth. Eleanor Di Guillo
There is this guy who stole my heart. He calls me his wife.
There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more. Dave Grohl
My husband is my rock. My best friend. My soul mate. And he’s hot as heck.
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two. Thomas Adams
The Lord has given me a wonderful gift in the form of you, my hubby.
I thank Him every single day for this invaluable gift in my life.
Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it. Stephen Gaines
You are the sun in my day, the wind in my sky, the waves in my ocean, and the beat in my heart. Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
To me, you are perfect. Love Actually
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë
A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace. Darlene Schacht
Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours. Ludwig van Beethoven
The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me. Robert Breault
You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how. Gone With the Wind

Partners in Life’s Journey

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner everyday. Barbara De Angelis
A husband’s heart is his wife’s shelter and his arms her home.
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
Love is not something you feel. It is something you do. David Wilkerson
Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length. Fawn Weaver
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther
But there is not enough time. And there is no, no song I could sing.
And there is no combination of words I could say. But I will still tell you one thing. We’re better together. Jack Johnson
Thank you, my love, for always making me feel like the most beautiful woman in the world.
The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning, but rather as love grows and develops over time. Fawn Weaver
Love gains a whole new meaning with you in my life. I love you to bits, dear husband.
I’m not spoiled. My husband just loves me.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Marilyn Monroe
A great marriage is not when the perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. Dave Meurer
A husband and his wife were standing in front of a mirror. The wife asked: What do you see?’ The husband replied: The rest of my life.’ Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one. John Keats
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love. Dr. Seuss
The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together. Saint John Chrysostom
I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without doubt, in a heartbeat, I’ll keep choosing you.
What makes a husband and wife great is appreciating their similarities and respecting their differences.
No husband/wife relationship is all sunshine, yet they can both share one umbrella and survive the storm together.
Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations. Pablo Neruda
The goal of a husband and wife should not be to think alike, but to think together as a team. Let each person play to their strengths and be supported through their weaknesses so, together, they are a powerful force to be reckoned with.
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. Barnett Brickner
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. Ogden Nash
Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day. Barbara De Angelis
Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy. Dwight Moody
Husband and wife, in love for life.
There are few things more frightening to a man than giving away his heart. And there are few things more comforting to a man than to know the woman he gave his heart to, will protect it with her life. Fawn Weaver
When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart. Nicholas Sparks
God designed husbands and wives to complete each other, not to compete with each other. Jimmy Evans
Every beat of my heart belongs to you, every ray of sunshine comes from you, and every whiff of air that I breathe, I breathe for you.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say. Alfred Hitchcock
You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever. Margaret Watson
Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend every night of the week. Christie Cook
You are the source of my joy, the center of my world and the whole of my heart.
Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse’s positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently. Rabbi Pliskin Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes

Through Thick and Thin: The Power of Togetherness

Husbands and wives are designed to complement each other. When the man is weak, his wife is strong; when she stumbles, he is there to pick her up. Life is easier when two hearts and minds are committed to working together to face the challenges of the day. Gary Chapman
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now … Fred Rogers
A husband and wife may disagree on many things but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up.
I will spend an eternity loving you, caring for you, respecting you, showing you every day that I hold you as high as the stars. Steve Maraboli
You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you, and then you meet one person and your life is changed forever. Jamie Randall
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de SaintExupery
Happily ever after’ is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice. Fawn Weaver
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. The Vow
What I love most about my home is who I share it with. Tad Carpenter
Your kind effort can clear all the misunderstanding and mistrust.
I’d rather have bad times with you, than good times with someone else. I’d rather be beside you in a storm, than safe and warm by myself. I’d rather have hard times together, than to have it easy but apart. I’d rather have the one who holds my heart. Luther Vandross
I can’t promise you an easy life or that I will be the perfect husband to you, but what I can promise you is that I will love and cherish you every day.
It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and you cannot remember how you ever lived without them.
Husbands and wives are equal partners. They have different but complementary responsibilities.
The couples that are meant to be are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart. And come out even stronger.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’ve been with each other all along. Rumi
I am a proud wife of an imperfect husband. He is the only one in this world who can tolerate my madness.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. Franz Schubert
Love, love, love. This is all what married life is about. Loving life and living life for love.
So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday. Nicholas Sparks
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson
Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful. Maggie Reyes
Any home can be a castle when the king and queen are in love. Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
When the darkness rolls in, I’ll be there through thick and thin. Hilary Duff
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership. Dame Helen Mirren
The love between a husband and wife is not what is said but what is shown.

Laughing Together, Staying Together

Great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership. Helen Mirren Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life. Ouida
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Rosemonde Gerard
Never marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cannot live without.
The husband who knows how to make his wife smile is indeed the best husband in the world… Nandita Saini
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing more. Victor Hugo
As husband and wife, we will fight, we will argue, we will disagree, and we will even shed some tears, but we will also fight through each of those moments with love.
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. Antoine de SaintExupery
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming you have to start over again every morning. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever. David Gest
Every single day we spend as husband and wife, I realize how lucky I am to live such an amazing life.
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. Menander
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is the conversation. Oscar Wilde
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther
I know our journey isn’t perfect, but it’s ours…And I’ll stick with you till the very end.
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond
Happiness in marriage is a moment-by-moment choice. It’s a decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together. Fawn Weaver
A good marriage is a contest of generosity. Diane Sawyer
Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; everchanging and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day. Fawn Weaver
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
No one can go back and change how it started but a new future for any marriage can begin the moment one person begins to invest in it. Fawn Weaver
You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had. Nicholas Sparks
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It’s the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. Meryl Streep
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.
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 with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? George Eliot
In a marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, and enabler rather than a reformer. H. Norman Wright
A husband and wife are not a team because they work together. They are a team because they respect, trust, and unconditionally love each other.
All of the best love stories have one thing in common, you have to go against the odds to get there.
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. Oscar Wilde
You are the only person I can be ME with because you are the only person who loves me for what I am and not what I can be.
A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love.
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you. Walter Winchell
When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of gain, that is a lack of integrity. When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of greater understanding with your spouse, that’s called wisdom. Fawn Weaver
A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created. Fawn Weaver Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
To my husband, I love you every waking moment of my life; I am over the moon to be your wife.
One of the most beautiful things in the world is a woman’s heart. It is fragile yet strong. Delicate yet resilient. When a woman gives you her heart, she gives you her most prized possession. If you love, nurture, cherish and protect it, she’ll give you the world. Fawn Weaver

Love, Trust, and Commitment

My husband wears the pants in my house… The ones I pick.
For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you. Andrew McMahon
True love is inexhaustible. The more you give, the more you have. Antoine De SaintExupery
I promise to love you forever, every single day of forever. Stephenie Meyer
Some people search their whole lives to find what I found in you.
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. Anne S Swetchine
When my husband holds me in his arms it makes me feel even if just for those moments that all else is well in the world. Fawn Weaver
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first began. Robert Herrick
Marriage is a commitment a decision to do, all through life, that which will express your love for one’s spouse. Herman H. Kieval
I ask myself every day. How did I get so lucky to marry my best friend in this world?
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. Robert Fulgham
You are my love story, and I write you into everything I do, everything I see, everything I touch and everything I dream, you are the words that fill my pages. A.R Asher
Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere. Vertigo
When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. Arrigo Boito
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Edward Moore Husband and Wife Inspirational Quotes
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.