68 Not Feeling Like a Priority in a Relationship Quotes to Help You Out (2023)

When you're feeling like many things are more important than you then that's a terrible spot to be in when you're in a relationship.

So in today’s post I’d like to share the best not feeling like a priority in a relationship quotes.

To help you take a sober look at a relationship in your life – no matter if that's with a partner, a friend or a family member – and see where you honestly want to go from here.

For your happiness, health and for what you need in your life.

And if you want even more helpful inspiration then check out this post with quotes on the effort one puts into a relationship and also this one filled with badass quotes.

Relatable Not Feeling Like a Priority in a Relationship Quotes

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“I don't want a perfect relationship. I want someone I can trust and who won't be cheating on me physically or emotionally. Everyone needs someone who loves them completely and who won't play games with their heart. Last but not least, I'm a strong believer that when it comes to relationships, remaining faithful is not an option but a priority. Loyalty means the world.”
– Brigitte Nicole

“Be with someone who won't make poor excuses for their lack of effort.”
– Kristie May

“Sometimes when I am honest with myself I feel like I’m in the wrong house with the wrong person (or at least with a pretty incompatible person). And that makes me wonder: is there someone out there that could be my true match and soul mate?”
– Unknown

“Love simply is – it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.”
– Stephanie Laurens

“It sucks being ignored. It makes you feel like you're not important. Although selfish, you should be a high priority in their lives no matter what's going on.”
– Unknown

“A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”
– Rose Gordon

“She questioned her own beauty because of him he left scars on her self esteem…”
– r.h. sin

“There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people wouldn't even jump puddles for you.”
– Unknown

“If people put in the same effort to keep you as they did to get you, most relationships would last.”
– Rashida Rowe

“There's nothing quite as sad as a one-sided love. When one doesn't care at all and the other cares too much.”
– Dolly Parton

“No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.”
– May Sarton

“If you're making a conscious effort… someone should be meeting you on the same page.”
– Turcois Ominek

“You can put all your effort in trying to make someone happy… but there comes a time when we become tired of trying to fill a bucket that is leaking from the inside.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priority than your relationships. Love is what gives meanings to life.”
– Dave Willis

Helpful Not Feeling Like a Priority in a Relationship Quotes

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
– Deborah Reber

“Focus on your priorities before your priorities lose focus on you.”
– Sarah Leigh

“You shouldn't marry unless the both of you are on the same page on a lot of things. Life is going to deal you blows, and you have to be together. Your values and priorities have to be on the same page; otherwise, it won't work.”
– Nicole Ari Parker

“Stop feeding connections that don't feed you. Stop spending so much time filling others, while you’re starved of love. You are deserving too.”
– Billy Chapata

“Choose the option that will give you long term happiness instead of the option that will only give you temporary pleasure.”
– Sonya Parker

“Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.”
– Sam Altman

“Love should be your top priority, primary objective, and greatest ambition. Love is not a good part of your life; it's the most important part. The Bible says, Let love be your greatest aim.”
– Rick Warren

“Know what matters most to you and be unwilling to compromise those priorities at almost any price.”
– Frank Sonnenberg

“If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative! Know when to close the account.”
– Christie Williams

“Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“For me having kids, it doesn't clip your wings, it gives you a different type of adventure to take, like you say you've got different priorities.”
– Helen Skelton

“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”
– Jim Rohn

“When someone treats you like an option, help them narrow their choices by removing yourself from the equation. It's that simple.”
– Unknown

“No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless good effort is made on both sides to keep it so.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important.”
– Charles E. Hummel

Wise Not Feeling Like a Priority in a Relationship Quotes

“There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.”
– Eric Zorn

“Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.”
– Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You are a priority. Not an option, last resort, or toy. Don't allow anyone to treat you like anything less.”
– Ritu Ghatourey

“The wrong person makes you beg for attention, affection, love, and commitment. The right person gives you these things because they love you and because they are right for you.”
– Unknown

“For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.”
– Robert Reed

“Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.”
– Jim Carrey

“Love is a lot like flowers. With enough effort and time, it can blossom into something beautiful and unforgettable. But with neglect and dispassion, it can die and be lost forever.”
– Jocelyn Sanchez

“When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse – obviously, something is wrong.”
– Laura Schlessinger

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
– Albert Einstein

“Never fall in love with someone that won’t fight for you because when the real battles begin they won’t pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“You can’t have a romantic relationship if you are not a priority in your partner's life. That can be a tough pill to swallow but the faster you do it, the faster you can move on to a happier life and hopefully find a person worthy of your time and love.”
– Unknown

“Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.”
– Alan Cohen

“There is no better life than a life spent laboring at love – exerting effort not because we have to, but because we believe that what we are bringing into being is valuable and we want it to exist. Yet because our culture tends to misunderstand the nature of labor and of love, we undervalue both.”
– Moira Weigel

“Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.”
– Taylor Lautner

“In your early 20s, it was maybe acceptable to have a friend who was taking all of your time and energy and exhausting you and always a drama. When you're in your 30s, or you're starting to have babies, you just can't put up with it anymore, and that's okay, because I think your priorities shift.”
– Busy Philipps

Short Relationship Priority Quotes

“Love is my first priority, all others may vary.”
– J.M Gharst

“Action expresses priorities.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you love, kindness and a little tenderness? If not, rethink your relationship.”
– Unknown

“I'm more than just an option; refuse or be forgotten.”
– Drake

“Even the most intense feelings cease when neglected and taken for granted.”
– Anupama Garg

“No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.”
– Unknown

“Unrequited love differs from mutual love, just like delusion differs from the truth.”
George Sand

“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
– Carroll Bryant

“Indifference is often more hurtful than outright dislike.”
– Unknown

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.”
– Meg Cabot

“Effort is a two way thing. If someone wanted to put in effort, they would, so there's no point chasing.”
– Unknown

“If someone believes you are worth the effort they will make the effort.”
– Kevin Darné

“Make yourself a priority. At the end of the day, you're your longest commitment.”
– Unknown

“Unhealthy relationships keep our self-esteem low.”
– Sam Owen

“A relationship gap starts and then widens between two people, when priorities change.”
– Unknown

“Finding your soul mate isn't the hard part; staying together is.”
– Neha Yazmin

“Love is a priority.True love is being a priority.”
– Ananya Aggarwal

“If someone is really into you, you don't have to keep begging them for a text, call or to spend time. They'll do it if you're a priority.”
– Unknown

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Staying in a situation where you are unappreciated isn't called loyalty. It's called breaking your own heart.”
– Unknown

“Never love anybody that treats you like you're ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde

“If you have to ask where you stand chances are you're not a priority because if you were you'd know it.”
– Sonya Parker

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