Quotes About Commitment

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

I'd think 'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.

Most people don't have a clue what our volunteers really do.

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."8

Discipleship to Jesus was not like discipleship to a Jewish rabbi. The rabbis bound their disciples not to themselves but to the Torah; Jesus bound his disciples to himself. The rabbis offered something outside of themselves; Jesus offered himself alone.

Theology and history are intellectual pursuits; faith is commitment of the whole person.

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life? to strengthen each otherto be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

In your business or in your close relationships, if you want people to perform Herculean feats on your behalf, they must know that you care about them.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

Some of you know me. Some of you have seen me fight and some of you are my friends. Have your vote. But know this: if you come to remove me, come in force, because if you try to separate me from him, I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake. My aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die.

It's my job to run after her." "Without backup?" "I am the backup.

You don't pick the family your born into. You pick the one you make.

Monogamy," he stated flatly. "While you're with me, I'm the only one. Anybody else touches you and I'll kill them." "What if I accidently bump into someone?" Gold flashed in his eyes. "Don't.

That's what marriage was, at the core—the exclusive right to spend as much time with someone you loved as they were willing to give.