Quotes About Commitment

I don't want to win the battle, Dana. I want to take the field, win the war. When I make love to you in this bed, it's going to be because you've accepted you're with the man and the Master you want for the rest of your life.

I would pursue you through any life," he said against her hair. "You'll never lose me.

God, he was going to destroy her. But maybe for the first time in her life, she'd found a man worth shattering for.

Come back to your Master. He's going to fall apart without you in his life. Don't leave me, angel.

I know who I am, my lady, and what matters and what doesn't. I want to be with you. That's one of the real things that matter. That's worth everything else.

One day they'd be too old to do this, multiple climaxes in one night, having sex on a table, but it wouldn't matter. He'd enjoy her at every age, in whatever manner the gods allowed, even if it was just gazing at her in her rocking chair and loving the silver in her hair and the lines on her face that time had earned. As long as they were together, it wouldn't matter.

I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write.

Do either nothing or everything; the mediocre, the moderate, is repellent to me: I prefer an extreme.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

You don't get what you don't fight for.

They found that 13 percent of people say they are "engaged" in their jobs—which means they are "enthusiastic about, and committed to their work and contribute to their organization in a positive manner.

you don't need millions of people. You need a small group of people that get [what] the problems [are], and know about creative confrontation—to create drama around it, to begin the consciousness-raising…. You capture people's attention, and then enough people feel that it's a vital issue that they want to give their time and their energy [to], and that there's a clear direction.

The you that exists in the present—right now—wants to pursue your deeper goals, and wants to be a better person. But you know you're fallible and likely to crack in the face of temptation. So you bind the future version of you. You narrow your choices. You tie yourself to the mast.

It turned out pre-commitment was strikingly successful—resolving clearly to do something, and making a pledge that they'd stick to it, made the men significantly better at holding out.

Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long time spans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

What we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions … Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth. Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long timespans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Who strives always to the utmost,For him there is salvation.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

One must be something to be able to do something.