Commitment Quotes

“If I was going to commit to someone, I wanted him to be worth the worry, worth the part of me I was going to give him.”
― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest

“Are your desires important enough to make you willing to face your fears? Do you want it bad enough? The choice is yours. You can choose to change your attitude from resignation to commitment, from a state of fear to a state of love. The first step is to question yourself, to literally change your internal statements to questions. Change 'I am a failure' to 'Could I be a success?' Change 'I am bored with my life' to 'Could I be exhilarated?' Change 'My life doesn’t make a difference' to 'Could I make a difference in the world?”
― Debbie Ford, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams

“Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“For whatever it's worth, never fall a victim of the struggle. And when it so happens remain a soldier and a champion. ✊”
― DON SANTO

“I simply have no business being in love and playing around with a girl, however innocently.... After all I am supposed to be a monk with a vow of chastity and though I have kept my vow—I wonder if I can keep it indefinitely and still play this gorgeous game!”
― Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton [Volume Six 1966-1967]

“the smallest of gestures mirror the greatest of feelings”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

“He could be trusted. And I knew no matter what mistakes he made, no matter what mistakes I might make too, that we would be fine. I don't know if I would have believed in that type of security before I had it. Before I chose to give it. And by giving it to Billy- I gave it to myself too. But saying to someone- no matter what you do, we're not over, I don't know. Something about that relaxed me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“His simple words of implied tomorrows made me feel secure, adored.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Say No often. Be wary of committing too quickly. So that when you say Yes, even the heavens will rejoice.”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“Any relationship beyond acquaintanceship is composed of one to three qualities: passion, intimacy, and commitment. Simple friendship has one: intimacy. You can have other friends and you do not feel passionately about one another, or we are dealing with another animal. Most romantic relationships begin with a dollop of passion, often to the exclusion of anything else. The person in your arms is the best in the world, though you barely know him or her. You have never felt this way. Any gaps or deficits are temporarily puttied over by passion. When most people envision romantic love, this is where they stop. Romantic comedies but only rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because they must be up early for work. No one wants to see the mundane when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-stunted frottage. The passion of infatuation triggers the release of addictive chemicals. We would rather get another hit than cope with the relative dullness of intimacy and commitment.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“People either get this or they don't. Everyone's destiny is different. It is not so about what we carry but how we carry it that defines each one of us. There are lots of 'uncommon' factors contributing to a person not achieving his goals. We only talk about the common ones like lack of focus, commitment and all. You will agree with me that as complex as the world now is so is the human mind; if a person can learn to think in the simplest of manners he is more likely to reach his goals. No one is an exception, before you point a finger, ask, "Will my criticism contribute to the complexity in that person's life or or empower him?" Discipline nowadays is not solely based on your ability to take action but on your ability to step into greatness in the simplest of ways”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“We can do anything once we make a commitment in life!”
― Avijeet Das

“Despite the frequent desperation, I cannot give up. For when I give up, the cause that I am fighting for might be diminished by my absence, but the person who I am is destroyed by my cowardice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“a relationship doesn't mean
"being as free as before"
it means to dedicate yourself
to become a part of a greater whole

it means experience:
to recognize your own self within the other one

it means completion:
to feel another, more complete kind
of freedom”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

“we might not be perfect
but perfect for one another”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

“Because nothing has been said, it does not absolve you of your commitment to satisfy your promise.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“What you think, you say, because you have a beautiful mind with pure thoughts. And what you say, you will do in life, because it comes from a deep place of commitment. Only when there is this sense of peace, you can clearly see.”
― Raju Ramanathan, Souls From Mercury: Chakra Magic: Empowering Relationships

“Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.”
― Alan Cohen

“Commitment is not what you expect from the other, but what you offer to others. To commit is to set the self-expectation, stand at it and deliver it to yourself.”
― Anand Patwa

“We have faith in God, and so we surrender, falling dependent upon His goodness, believing His Way is better, unwilling to be swayed by anyone or anything else.”
― Jeremy Gove, Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity

“I groaned and closed my eyes, images of her naked in my bed, eating meals off of her perfect, olive skin.

“Months?”

“Years,” she said softly. “A lifetime.”

My eyes snapped open and I sat up quickly, my heart beating too fast. “Do you mean it, Caro, a lifetime?”

Her eyes were serious as she replied.
“Yes.”

I closed my eyes again, breathing in deeply. When I looked up, a huge smile stretched across my face.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, Semper Fi

“Focus on the act and efforts, not on the outcome and obstacles.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“There is neither a shortcut, nor any secret to becoming rich.
But there is a process to becoming rich - a process that demands discipline, commitment, consistency, perseverance & character of the highest order.”
― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

“Love is not in the ring. Love is in the heart.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Love is not a quickie; love needs a lot of time and patience to entirely unfurl.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Never wait for a miracle to happen if you are in love with a person who is going through a commitment phobia for too long rather let them go instantly because you deserve a person who is right and ready for a committed relationship.”
― Dhiraj Kumar Raj, Attracting A Specific Person: How to Use the Law of Attraction to Manifest a Specific Person, Get Back Your Ex and Manifest a Vibrant Relationship.

“Well the word 'commitment' has only one meaning. That you stay true to your words.”
― Avijeet Das

“I can’t wrap up a pebble, tie it with a bow and tell you it’s a diamond. I can’t tell you it’s all good, or that it happened for a reason. But I can tell you that I’d rather experience being with you through all your pain and difficulties, than being without you.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Nick

“We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Lovers are not meant to be trusted, as our bodies are lying to our brains via rushes of hormones. Once these are more settled, our brains return the favor, assuring the body it is comfortable and wouldn't rather sow wilder seeds and plow more fields.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot