Quotes About Commitment

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to keep her safe.

He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?" "Blades," he whispered, "and sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold my blade.

You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home.

Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?" "Once." He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face, trace those beautiful lips with her own. "I married her.

We die...... We die together. That's the deal.

Remember that married love is not a feeling—it's a decision. If you behave in a loving and caring way, your partner will, eventually, respond to that behavior. When

Dating is a matter of priorities and, other than your relationship with the Lord, your relationship with your spouse is supposed to be number one on the list.

The plan for your marriage. You two are going to have to figure out why your marriage fell apart ... how to fix it ... how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

The truth is, marriage is both difficult and effortless, magnificent and excruciating, blissful and tedious. Sometimes it's all of those things within the same day—even within the same hour.

eventually our feelings caught up with our actions. We learned that married love is not a feeling. It is a decision, ... and we decided to love each other.

everyone's place to do it

Once she asked me to kiss her. I said, "No, I want to keep our friendship and give it back to God." She agreed. We remained friends for over fourteen years.

it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever about it. But instead of putting it to me as a sensible business proposition he would drag in all this talk about love the whole time, and I simply can't bear those showerings of sentimentality. Otherwise I should most likely have married him ages ago.

If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.

Fears about his fidelity were ridiculous, according to Henry 'There never was a purer...affection than what I profess for you,' he wrote. He was 'indifferent indeed to all the rest of your sex.

I looked up ivy in The Meanings of Flowers. The clinging vine stood for "fidelity.

When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something