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Quotes About Commitment

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.
~ Francis Chan
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
~ Oscar Wilde
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
~ John Selden
Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce
~ Red Skelton
I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.
~ Diane Kruger
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
~ Alan Keyes
Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
~ Stephen Covey
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
~ Mort Sahl
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.
~ Paul Tournier
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.
~ Dennis Rainey
Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.
~ Lolo Jones
The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.
~ Travis Tritt
I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
~ David Boreanaz
The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.
~ Ann Romney
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
~ Frank Muir
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
~ Iris Murdoch
Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.
~ Ruby Dee
Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.
~ Helen Hunt
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
~ Anton Chekhov
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
~ Adela Rogers St. John
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
~ Josh Billings
Them lady poets must not marry, pal.
~ John Berryman, The Dream Songs
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
~ P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally