Quotes About Commitment

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Sometimes you just have to play in pain

We can choose to live today free from the failures of yesterday. Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.

Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.

Love is a choice you make everyday.

Love is a verb.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

True love cannot begin until the "in love" experience has run it's course.

Love is a choice.

Jupiter. I promise I'll always know where you are.

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

These higher-order capabilities are the products of passion, of a commitment to something that inspires us, something outside ourselves that needs and deserves the best of who we are. Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded. They are gifts. Every employee gets to decide, "Do I bring these gifts to work today, or not?" and as the Gallup data suggests, the answer is usually "no" and, sometimes, "hell, no.

Never forget is not something you say on a prescribed day; if it is real it is something you live the rest of your life

7. Be willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. If your job doesn't excite you enough to follow this principle, resign and find a job you love enough to do what it takes.

For the year Jessica and I were together, we were as in love as two people can be. There was no faking how she felt about me. She couldn't possibly have reversed herself so quickly.

Until my ONE Thing is done—everything else is a distraction.

You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided." —General George S. Patton

Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, "I just need more discipline." Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.