Commitment Quotes

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Mindy Kaling
“I'm not talking about commitment to romantic relationships. I'm talking about commitment to things: houses, jobs, neighborhoods. Having a job that requires a contract. Paying a mortgage. 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 anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”
Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

C. JoyBell C.
“Freedom is not the absence of commitment, and to be committed to something or to someone does not mean the loss of freedom. But freedom exists in the realm of the unbound and to be free is to be committed to that which is a part of the unbound realm. Whatever sets your soul to flight is freedom. If someone sets your soul to flight, to stay with that person is not to lose freedom but to stay with that person is to retain freedom. Together you have what is unbound. Whatever will swell your spirit and give you wings, is freedom, and it is a fault if you let go of that for the very reason that you are afraid of losing your freedom and in doing so you have in fact let go of what will keep you unbound.”
C. JoyBell C.

Steve Maraboli
“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

“Commitment is Circumstances”
Leju Thomas

Orrin Woodward
“One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.”
Orrin Woodward, LIFE

Joe Plumeri
“You can't do passion halfway. Living your passion means you're all in. You trust your heart and trust your gut wherever that takes you.”
Joe Plumeri, The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success--by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work

Pamela Cummins
“A relationship will either make the majority of your life happy or miserable. It is important to take your time and make sure that it is a wise choice before making a commitment.”
Pamela Cummins, Psychic Wisdom on Love and Relationships

Wilkie Collins
“I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.”
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Allan Bloom
“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

Hubert L. Dreyfus
“the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment”
Hubert Dreyfus

Manoj Arora
“Got an idea to start", "Thinking to start" and "Making a commitment to start" is one aspect of life.
Actually "Starting" what you truly want to do in life, is a completely different ball game.”
Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

Rollo May
“The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.”
Rollo May, The Courage to Create

“Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens to you. They disassociate love from the mind and, therefore, from agency. In commanding us to love, the Lord refers to something much deeper than romance — a love that is the most profound form of loyalty. He is teaching us that love is something more than feelings of the heart; it is also a covenant we keep with soul and mind.”
Lynn G. Robbins

Rob Liano
“The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.”
Rob Liano

Elizabeth Gilbert
“In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Susan Cooper
“And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.”
Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone

Rebecca Miller
“Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.”
Rebecca Miller, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Elizabeth Gilbert
“The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Sage Steadman
“They could have fought against it, begged for another way or gone off the path in hopes of finding an easier passage. Instead, they looked upon the trail ahead, the rough ridge, now bound by thick snow, and they accepted the path they had chosen.”
Sage Steadman, Upon Destiny's Song

Thomas Jefferson
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Chuck Wendig
“I love you in the future tense: I will love you, tomorrow and the day after and the day after that until there are no more days left for us.”
Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

Widad Akreyi
“Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.”
Widad Akrawi

“Seen from Earth, a comet is a prodigy, coming out of the void for no reason, returning to the void for no reason. They call it unpredictable because they cannot predict it. From the comet’s own point of view, nothing could be simpler. It starts in the outer darkness, aims directly at the sun, and never stops till it gets there. Everything else spins in its same orbit forever. The comet heads for the source. They call it crooked because it is too straight. They call it unpredictable because it is too fixed. They call it chaotic because it is too linear.”
Scott Alexander, Unsong

Robert Penn Warren
“We never know what we have lost, or what we have found.
We are only ourselves, and that promise.
Continue to walk in the world. Yes, love it!”
Robert Penn Warren

Ravi Zacharias
“Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you will to love somebody, you can. - Ravi Zacharias' brother”
Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah

“Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment.”
Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

Marlon James
“You Kongori do not believe in magic and spirits.”

“I am not Kongori, but you speak true, I do not believe. Some people believe the goddess speaks to leaves so they grow, and whisper in a spell to coax a flower to open wide. Others believe that if they just feed it sun and water, both will make them grow. There are only two things, Tracker: that which men of wisdom can explain, and that which they will explain. Of course you do not agree.”

“Just like all you men of learning. Everything in the world cooks down to two. Either-or, if-then, yes-no, night-day, good-bad. You all believe in twos so much I wonder if any of you can count to three.”

“Harsh. But you are no believer either.”

“Maybe I have no love for sides.”

“Maybe you have no love for commitment.”
Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf