Quotes About Commitment

The shock waves would rumble through business, industry, church, education, and the rest of society. Why? Because people who are "in love" lose interest in other pursuits. That is why we call it "obsession." The college student who falls head over heels in love sees his grades tumbling. It is difficult to study when you are in love.

It's hard to believe anything else when you are in love.

Los ingredientes esenciales en una actividad de calidad son: (1) que al menos uno de los dos quiera hacerlo, (2) el otro esté dispuesto a hacerlo, y (3) ambos sepan por qué lo hacen: para expresarse amor estando juntos.

I can't conceive of doing anything to hurt her. My only desire is to make her happy. I would do anything to make her happy." Such obsession gives us the false sense that our egocentric attitudes have been eradicated

Once the experience of falling in love has run its natural course (remember, the average in-love experience lasts two years), we will return to the world of reality and begin to assert ourselves.

We can recognize the in-love experience for what it was—a temporary emotional high—and now pursue "real love" with our spouse.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It

I'm sorry. I know I have hurt you, but I would like to make the future different. I would like to love you in your language. I would like to meet your needs." I have seen marriages rescued from the brink of divorce when couples make the choice to love.

they begin the hard work of learning to love each other without the euphoria of the "in love" obsession.

What is ironic is that we recognize the need for education in all other pursuits of life and fail to recognize that need when it comes to marriage. Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.

In our company the trick is to change jobs in time to guarantee that the long-term pay-off you promised four years ago in your capital budget proposal becomes someone else's short-term performance target.

Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer?

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." —John Carmack

Here is how Karl Menninger defines loyalty: Loyalty means not that I agree with everything you say or believe you are always right. Loyalty means that I share a common ideal with you and that, regardless of minor differences, we fight for it, shoulder to shoulder, confident in one another's good faith, constancy, and affection.[16]

kep on trying

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping. He had to keep hoping.

Y)ou've got to do more than what's expected if you want to get ahead.

The role of a husband doesn't begin at the altar—it begins with the atonement . . . at the cross.

with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students

SALLYSTAR: That's why I'm never going to be in a relationship. I'm just going to get married.

Writing a book is always a hard job. One is always tempted to limit oneself to dreaming it.

Does he love you so much? He would commit murder for me.