These spouse quotes will inspire you. A spouse is a significant other in a marriage, civil union, or common-law marriage or a husband or wife, considered in relation to their partner.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging spouse quotes, spouse sayings, and spouse proverbs.
Best Spouse Quotes
- “An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!” ~ Barbara Bush
- “I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.” ~ Benjamin Spock
- “I don’t want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.” ~ Michael Zaslow
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“A good spouse and health is a person’s best wealth.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren’t being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves.” ~ Dave Willis
- “Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with–a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.” ~ John Corey Whaley
- “When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn’t a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “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
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“It’s important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.” ~ Christina Aguilera
- “A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.” ~ Robert Breault
- “Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other’s space and are champions of each other’s causes.” ~ Henry Cloud
- “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.” ~ Yasmin Mogahed
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“Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.” ~ John of the Cross
- “Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Mary is more important than the apostles.” ~ Pope Francis
- “There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ:
Jesus is my God,
Jesus is my Spouse,
Jesus is my Life,
Jesus is my only Love,
Jesus is my All in All;
Jesus is my Everything.” ~ Mother Teresa -
“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion” ~ Henry B. Eyring , Spouse quotes love
- “You have to make a switch. Decide today to start appreciating your spouse’s strengths and learn to downplay their weaknesses. If you do, your marriage will be filled with more peace, unity and love, and you’ll see God bless your marriage in greater ways.” ~ Joel Osteen
- “• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.” ~ Guy Kawasaki
- “Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling her what she’s not doing right? Or are you doing like Solomon-blessing, encouraging, and uplifting that woman?” ~ Joel Osteen
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“The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse.” ~ Olivia Wilde
- “Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that’s really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer’s and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.” ~ Mary Pipher
- “Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?” ~ Joan Kirner
- “I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can’t see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.” ~ Donald Miller
- “What you don’t catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.” ~ Nick Hornby
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“Express gratitude for what your spouse does for you. Express that love and gratitude often.” ~ Richard G. Scott
- “It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy, and that’s just about the same thing.” ~ James Dobson
- “When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.” ~ Phil McGraw
- “A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don’t necessarily see.” ~ Ted Cruz
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“How you think about your spouse greatly impacts how you treat your spouse.” ~ Ted Lowe
- “All in all it’s a pretty great day for major league sports. At long last they’ve decided that gay people are fit to be included in their elite club-one that’s already allowed in adulterers, wife-swappers, gamblers, cheaters, rapists, racists and slaughterers of man. Those who’ve abused spouses, drugs, alcohol, family members and animals. Congratulations, gay athletes. Are you sure you want to hang out with these people?” ~ Jon Stewart
- “Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.” ~ Stephen Kendrick
- “Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.” ~ Stephen Kendrick
- “Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.” ~ John Piper
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“Dally not with other folk’s spouses or money.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Having a really good partner, whether it’s a good friend, someone in your family or a spouse, is always the greatest thing to have when you have a new challenge that you’re facing.” ~ Anousheh Ansari
- “Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you’ll have a good idea of where to draw the line.” ~ Jason Evert
- “All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.” ~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
- “Real giving is when we give to our spouses what’s important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.” ~ Michele Weiner-Davis
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“Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.” ~ Yasmin Mogahed
- “For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person’s gone – the mother and father if you have kids.” ~ Jessy Schram
- “You’ve got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn’t work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you’ve ever had.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities – particularly never to make demands or threats.” ~ Hazel Hawke
- “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.” ~ Zelig Pliskin
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“The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.” ~ Larry Burkett
- “Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.” ~ Sarah Mahoney
- “Even with all that – excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment – I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that’s because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn’t feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics’. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.” ~ Elyn Saks , Supportive spouse quotes
- “It is easy to use the phrase ‘God’s will for my life’ as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. … My hope is that instead of searching for ‘God’s will for my life’ each of us would learn to seek hard after ‘the Spirit’s leading in my life today.’ May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit’s leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.” ~ Francis Chan
- “Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?” ~ Dennis Prager
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“People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.” ~ Gary Chapman
- “And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind.” ~ Larry Winget
- “When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children” ~ Henry Cloud
- “Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God’s glory – and not to serve as replacement idols – are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.” ~ Mark Driscoll
- “Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He’s someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we’ve been through so much together. He’s been through everything I’ve been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn’t win twenty games in New York. For me, he’s been there and that’s what makes a good pitching coach. He’s a good man, too.” ~ Andy Pettitte
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“Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.” ~ Ted Lowe
- “You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love “in the bank” to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.” ~ Timothy Keller
- “The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the ‘love account.'” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child’s approval, more alert to the child’s emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child’s suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon–the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.” ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- “You may have no family, no food, no clothes, no future, no spouse, no health, or no children, yet be rich beyond your wildest dreams because you have the Holy Spirit in your life.” ~ Jill Briscoe
- “Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That’s crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don’t have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.” ~ Anthony de Mello
