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

“At the point that our promises have become tactics to get what we want verses commitments that we intend to keep, the only thing that we are promising is the delivery of a broken promise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

“Consider the possibility that a creature of infinite love has made a promise to us. Consider the possibility that we are the ones committed to, the objects of an infinite commitment, and that the commitment is to redeem us and bring us home.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“That I commit to a life of opening and learning, that I commit to learning at a speed that is vigilant and awake, that I commit to knowing where my empathies lean and why they lean there, that I become increasingly familiar with the why of what raises my voice, that I become increasingly familiar with the why of what lulls me to silence, that I be haunted by the ghosts of who my silences have harmed, that I acknowledge that haunting is love, that I trust love lives in whatever points at the dark, that I acknowledge that shame would likely be my laziest gesture, that I stop denying I am a whole person, and my wholeness is often unlovable, and my wholeness is often lovable, that I own the possibility that there isn't a thing one could say about the person I am that I could wholeheartedly deny; All of it-yes, all of the ugly - yes, all of the beauty-, yes, I have failed and will continue to fail,

I have loved and will continue to love, I am committed to leaning and opening, I want people around me who are committed to learning and opening, people who are failing and loving, people who are stalking their own vigilance, the speed of their own compassion saying, 'FASTER FASTER FASTER.”
― Andrea Gibson, Take Me With You

“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

“Slow down your yes. Only commit to things you know you can accomplish because they’re incredibly important to you. Otherwise you set yourself up for continued failure.”
― Rachel Hollis, Girl Wash your Face

“Successful leadership is a commitment to the journey of tireless growth.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Don't worry about failure and you don't even have to be right once.

As long as you are creating something that you care about, that you are doing something worthwhile even when you look back after many years, repeating that process will always be a fulfilling, pleasant and joyful experience no matter the outcome of it because, for a committed human being who is involved in what he's doing, there is no such thing as failure.”
― Pedro Gaspar Fernandes

“You hoped to snuggle my skin
through the abrupt winter breeze
but the frost cleared before pursuit of your wishes
Because you, unlike the weather
first need to commit”
― Phoeby Montari, Raising My Mother and Other Kind Wars

“The moments that bind us to our decisions are not in how often we get lost in contemplation, neither are they in the kind of heart that we can commit to that something rather are in that first step that we initiate to get things done.”
― Tendai Kasusu

“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