Quotes About Commitment

Put your faith, hope, and trust in God. Do not look at your circumstances. Commit yourself to doing what He requires of you. Cling to the promises in His Word. Then when desperation pulls at your heart, you can cry out to Him, knowing that He hears your every word and will answer and provide the encouragement you need to hold out in the face of adversity.

Promiscuous animals, by and large, have smaller brains, for relationship demands a good deal of processing power, and promiscuity is a denial of relationship. Monogamy, as many of us know, is costly and hard: it demands work, though the pay-off can be profound. The work is often emotional work: give and take; forgiveness and forbearance.

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Go put your creed into your deed...

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.

Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.

The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him... If you recognize in yourself some such decisive taste, there is no room for hesitation: follow your bent.... soon your every thought will be engrossed in that beloved occupation.

Thank you paper clips, for being like staples that can't commit.

I've used up all my sick days so I'm calling in dead.

I vow to you for eternity an infinity of kisses.

They loved with a love that was frayed around the edges but strong at the seams.

Love is my religion — I could die for that.

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.

Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Successful marriage: The union of two good forgivers.

We go all wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right.

Sewing forever, housework whenever.

Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind...

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.