Commitment Quotes
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"With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me."
"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect."
"We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence."
"I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am."
"The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them."
"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it."
"If it’s the last kiss, we’d better make it last. I hope you don’t have anywhere to be, because I have the rest of my life free."
"To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us."
"If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it."
"What’s the point of being the first to arrive? Nobody is there to witness your commitment."
"She doesn’t want me to leave, and she doesn’t want me to stay. That’s a double helping of Doesn’t Want Me, and one big I’m Not Hungry back at her."
"I’d fight for your love like I’m Tyler Durden. I want you to hit on me as hard as you can."
"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."
"How many seconds does it take to win second? As many as it takes to win first—if you don’t use them properly."
"Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up."
"I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life."
"I'm hanging on to her memory like Spanish moss on an ancient Florida oak, and unlike the sunset, my love won't fade."
"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"I fall in love with you four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. The leaves may change, but how I feel about you does not."
"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover."
"I watered your memory every day to keep it alive, and after all this time it's like a tall cypress tree rooted deep in the St. John's River."
"INTENT reveals desire; ACTION reveals commitment."
"I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more."
"The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we just don't have people who are doing it."
"The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God."
"Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share."
"All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way."
"Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment."
"The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment."
"Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last."
Dory Hollander, 101 Lies Men Tell Women -- And Why Women Believe Them
"Building a relationship is rare..' Make the commitment wholeheartedly. Just do it and do it for both of you. Love doesn't have to be perfect, but it needs to be true."
"I squeegeed my third eye and could see only you."
Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"I want to be some body’s dumplin’. I’m not chicken."
Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished."
"No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way."
"When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you."
"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."
"Your commitment shakes the very foundation of this universe. (from The Amazing You movie)"
"You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping into your wildest dreams of self love."
"Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel."
Laurie Nadel, Dr. Laurie Nadel's Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power
"To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her."
"Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning."
Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
"Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment."
"There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both."
"Love is more than flirty feelings and fun dates. It's about what lives underneath the surface. The commitment you keep even when life gets hard and all the fuzzy feelings fade."
"It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it."
"Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward."
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