Quotes About Dedication

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say she's my best friend. That's not a given, it's a process.

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Am I keeping my promises?

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Marriage is not a reform school.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.