Quotes About Commitment

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Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

and to be in charge of life is always an occasion for loyalty.

Since the very first moment she had laid eyes on him, Lorna Connaught had loved Dante with a hot fierceness that both excited and shamed her. The excitement came from the knowledge that, from then until the day she died, he would always be hers. Her shame came from the realization that she'd never felt such an achingly deep love like that before. Not even for her husband, Matthew.

I pledged to make this marriage. Now it is a matter of honor." "Honor is a cold bedfellow.

I wanted all of her, her dreams so that I could make them real, her fears so that I could chase they away. Above all I wanted her trust. I wanted her to give herself to me completely, without any reservation. But

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

Um homem de bem, quando não pode mais honrar os compromissos que assumiu, manda em seu lugar o atestado de óbito.

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

There's a beauty, and there's a strength, you know, that grows only in a long walk together in the same direction.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

The best proof of love is trust.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

You like to think you can count on a person. To hang around

Not all at once, but gradually, over the months, another revelation came to me: None of that other stuff, much as I'd loved it, was what made a marriage. Not restaurant dinners or romantic vacations. Not walks on the beach or visits to wine country in the Boxster. Not oysters and martinis or moonlight over the Bay Bridge." "This was a marriage. As uncomfortable and inconvenient and devastating as it might be to live as we did now, we inhabited this place together.

way his choice of me as his girlfriend—as the