Quotes About Commitment

Don't ever let yourself become a fool to your loyalty.

People who don't keep promises, can't be trusted.

She taught me that without trust, love could never exist.

Trust me, the harder you work the better luck you have.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Don't spend a week prepping for meetings; spend an hour and then go talk to people. Anything more is stalling. Don't spend months doing full-time customer conversations before beginning to move on a product. Spend a week, maybe two. Get your bearings and then give them something to commit to.

Commitment can be cash, but doesn't have to be. Think of it in terms of currency—what are they giving up for you? A compliment costs them nothing, so it's worth nothing and carries no data. The major currencies are time, reputation risk, and cash.

Practice, practice, practice.

Anthony and I have always been close since we met. I know what he went through and how it helped get to where he is today. With all of this I will strive to get the best out of Anthony and I will always be there for him

It is a total delusion for people to say, 'I don't have time' because we all have the same amount of time in a day. What they really mean is 'It isn't important enough to me now'.

passionate leadership.

I want to grow old with you until my feathers go grey my beak wrinkles up and my wings are too weak to fly. All we can do is live from day to day. And as he whispered these words to her, she fell fast asleep.

An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge.

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

I don't know what your type is. I don't know what your deal is. I don't even know if you have a boyfriend. I know I like you and I want to be in your life, that's it, and if you have any room for a boyfriend, I would like to be your boyfriend, and if you don't have any room, I would like to be your friend. Any room you have for me in your life is great. If you would like me to start out in one room and move to another, I could do that.

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try and err with.

I had never gotten the hang of dating — I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.

That's why I never married. Marriage is lonely, but it ain't private." That was always my most intense fear about getting married: When everything sucked and I was by myself, I thought, Well, at least I don't have another miserable person to worry about. I figured if you give up your private place and it still turns out to be lonely, you're just screwed. So I felt safer not even thinking about it.

And they're right—what could be scarier, stupider, than staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons to be terrified?

At that moment, I knew she was the girl for me. Of course, we'd already been going out for a few weeks, so I wasn't, like, shocked or anything. But still, it's never not nice to to keep realizing.

Being a husband is scary....We have everything to lose. We have made promises. We have given hostages to fortune and challenged fate to a dance-off. We have chosen a future full of loss....when you marry somebody, you are guaranteeing that you will have real problems, a future full of them, the kind that involve death and disease and grief. As husbands, we have *planned* on major anguish. We can't afford to use up all our patience at once, or over things that aren't all that important.

I was afraid that I'd just ruined everything; it was the first time either of us had ever promised anything. But it felt all right. I guess making little promises made us braver about the bigger ones.

It felt disingenuous to keep saying, "If we're still together next year . . . " since we knew we wanted to be together next year. Pretending to keep those options open became dead weight.