Quotes about Marriage Work

I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father. Votes: 4

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. Votes: 2

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness. Votes: 2

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them. Votes: 2

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. Votes: 2

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. Votes: 2

It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention. Votes: 2

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't. Votes: 2

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. Votes: 2

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor. Votes: 2

Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that. Votes: 2

Marriage is hard work, period. Votes: 0

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen. Votes: 0

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't. Votes: 0

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work. Votes: 0

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. Votes: 0

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have. Votes: 0

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people. Votes: 0

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage. Votes: 0

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different. Votes: 0

Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it. Votes: 0

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business. Votes: 0

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. Votes: 0

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. Votes: 0

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it. Votes: 0

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else. Votes: 0

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship. Votes: 0

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. Votes: 0

Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. Votes: 0

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. Votes: 0

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like. Votes: 0

Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty. Votes: 0

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ... Votes: 0

Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise? Votes: 0

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards. Votes: 0

There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart. Votes: 0

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work. Votes: 0

The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other. Votes: 0

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart. Votes: 0

When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does. Votes: 0

I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet. Votes: 0

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. Votes: 0

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love. Votes: 0

Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in. Votes: 0

Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage. Votes: 0

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. Votes: 0

After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work Votes: 0

[Hillary Clinton chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.]It speaks of the sexism and the misogyny in this election [2016]. Votes: 0

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged. Votes: 0

I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work. Votes: 0

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work. Votes: 0

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. Votes: 0

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. Votes: 0

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day. Votes: 0

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work. Votes: 0

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues. Votes: 0

The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work together Votes: 0

There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart. Votes: 0

I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one. Votes: 0

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much. Votes: 0

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it. Votes: 0

Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage. Votes: 0

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work. Votes: 0

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit. Votes: 0

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work! Votes: 0

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. Votes: 0

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want. Votes: 0

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need. Votes: 0

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it. Votes: 0