Quotes About Commitment

Maxine did not have any money to contribute, but convinced Louise that she would contribute her first $5,000 in profits back into the business.

The sole burden of the partnership's debts fell upon Louise.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

Going to church no more making you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

It's always better to be doing.

Prepare a crossing party, snapped Horyse. A single person to cross. Miss Abhorsen, here. And Sergeant, if you or Private Rahise so much as talk in your sleep about what you may have heard here, then you'll be on gravedigging fatigues for the rest of your lives!

It is never the dogs who break faith.

continue to love each other, something I discover is not an automatic state but must be worked at, like an ever-changing tactical problem, though I would never describe it that way to my beloved

It is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

I feel that you will be a maker, not a seer. You must promise me that it will be so. Promise me that you will not give in. Promise me that you will never give up hope.

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best, and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

Yes,' she said slowly and clearly. 'I will carry the chain, and do whatever I can to help.

I will not give up. It is the right thing to do, no matter the consequences.

We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the tingles. Those warm, excited feelings, the chill bumps, that sense of acceptance, the excitement of the touch that make up the tingles serve as the cherry on top of the sundae. But you cannot have a sundae with only the cherry.

The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime

love is always a choice.

People who are in love lose interest in other pursuits. That is why we call it obsession.

Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct.

Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is important in life and what we wish to do with our lives. Speaking each other's primary love language creates the emotional climate where these beliefs can be fleshed out in daily life.

The most essential emotional element in a happy and healthy marriage is love.

Almost never do two people fall in love on the same day, and almost never do they fall out of love on the same day.