Quotes About Commitment

Love is a choice, and you need a plan, and you need to use skills to keep your marriage filled with love choices.

The chase causes you to be overcommitted and under-connected. Something has to change, or your marriage will suffer the consequences.

Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

As a believer involved in any premarital relationship, you must assume the other person does not belong to you—that he or she may ultimately belong to another. Until marriage vows are exchanged, there are no guarantees. You should operate as if you are getting to know another man's future wife or another woman's future husband. Treat them with the respect you hope someone is showing your future spouse

fact, he traveled nonstop for nearly forty-five years, covering three hundred thousand miles on horseback, crossing the Appalachian Mountains more than sixty times in the process, preaching sixteen thousand sermons, and ordaining four thousand Methodist preachers. He had no home—literally—and once told an English friend to address all future letters to him "in America.

The heart is forever unfaithful, and the feelings of love will come and go, but true love is not about what you feel. It is about what you do.

"Happy marriage" is a contradiction in terms.

I swallowed hard. Was I ready for the Wager of Love? It was still a gamble and there would be no guarantee of happiness, but I would not remain one of the Cowards of Love scattered around me. I knew that one could not be the Empire's greatest lover without truly knowing how to love. And yet I no longer even aspired to this hollow title. I wanted only what every common husband can achieve--to be the greatest lover of my very own wife.

Content with one woman?... That is impossible. If you could, then any man can, and any man can't.

Mom was an MD/PhD who worked as a genetic engineer. Dad was a Navy SEAL for four years before leaving to get a PhD in marine biology.

My heart wasn't in it.

Extraordinary breakthroughs require extraordinary perseverance.

We had to sacrifice for our children

Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is, naturally, another matter.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

on time, no matter what.

Any decision we think we are about to make is something that can be Googled before we commit to a choice.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. —Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success