Quotes About Commitment

Here is a Christian so committed to the well-being of other Christians, especially new Christians, that he is simply burning up inside to be with them, to help them, to nurture them, to feed them, to stabilize them, to establish an adequate foundation for them. Small wonder, then, that he devotes himself to praying for them when he finds he cannot visit them personally.4

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.

If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.

i thought love was about caring about someone day in and day out, about being there when it's fucking amazing, and still wanting to be there when it feels like crap. i thought it was about for ever' -will, calling romeo

It wasn't just the big romantic gestures that made a relationship, it was all the little things.

I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It's staying in love that's the hard part.

Word by word, page by page,' Cricket tells her cheerfully, 'that's how a writer writes and how a reader should read. You'll get there in the end. Doesn't matter if it takes six months or a year or longer to finish it. That's what I always used to tell my husband.

And in that moment, I know I will love him forever for doing that. Not love in the romantic sense, but love in the true, deep sense of the word. Without even being asked, he's driven through the night to be here for me. So I can lean on him when I need to lean on someone the most in my life. In the most desperate of times. When I thought I was alone. He was here. Waiting for me. And if that's not real love, I don't know what is.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV .

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Not only is that all we can do; it's what we have to keep doing, no matter how many of those meals end up in the garbage can.

But, as with punishments, they can never help someone to develop a commitment to a task or an action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.

When you come right down to it, the whole process of raising a kid is pretty damned inconvenient, particularly if you want to do it well. If you're unwilling to give up any of your free time, if you want your house to stay quiet and clean, you might consider raising tropical fish instead.

Y yo no tendré miedo de morenas ni rubias, pues cerraré los ojos y te diré: soy tuya.

È sempre più facile combattere per i propri principi che seguirli.

Would not the proper conclusion, therefore—a conclusion not overstrained and if not stated with excessive dogmatism—seem to be, that literature, though demanding precedence in the affections, and exacting the chief attention of one who professes really to love it, is not a jealous mistress, but, on the contrary, is only too well pleased to see even its most attached votaries combine with their one supreme passion a number of minor interests and even minor affections.

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.