Quotes About Commitment

I have never felt love as powerful as when Jesus spoke to me. I do need Him. I need His forgiveness. I have worked all my life to please God. But this Jesus has changed my thinking. I may die for this, but I must follow Him. I must.

Effort is the path to mastery, so let's at least give this a try.

I also knew that no one had told then to stay late--they were doing so of their own volition. This type of diligence and drive is not atypical in filmmaking--it's actually commonplace.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

The only question is how to make love stay.

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

It's no wonder people lack romance in their lives, love belongs to those who are willing to go to extremes for it.

You gotta come home. Be with me. After what we been through! We—we signed into that motel as man and wife! You put—you put your mouth on me. Shoulda checked the fine print, hon, whispered Ellen Cherry, trying to assist him back onto the ivy vines as quietly as possible. That blow job did not come with a lifetime warranty.

People are never perfect, but love can be. Loving makes perfect. Loving makes itself. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

Romantic love is ambulatory by nature, and it must be anchored in strata more stable than lust if it's to last. Marital disintegration is accelerated when only one, or neither, party is grounded and growing, or growing at different rates or in different directions.

Qualifying an opportunity at the outset helps you determine whether it's worth pursuing at all, and, if it is, with how much effort.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

I guess it's obvious where I'm going with this. Be faithful in the little things—even when it feels like it's such a waste of time. Be disciplined and finish what you've started in those seemingly ordinary moments, and watch the amazing things God can do!

Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that's the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.

Her passions were narrow but deep.

He said, 'Always. Always.

A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself.

You want a real thing?" asked Alice. "I'll tell you a real one. You got anything left to you to love, anything at all, do it.

What kind of love is it that requires an angel and only an angel for its commitment?