Committed Relationship Quotes

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

Ken Blanchard

Success, Work, Adventure

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If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love, Relationship, Moving

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Rollo May

Relationship, Peace, Mean

Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Education, Teacher

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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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.

Timothy Keller

Relationship, Marriage, Commitment

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

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Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

Thomas Keating

Love, Dark, Personality

Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. (2012). “Invitation to Love 20th Anniversary Edition: The Way of Christian Contemplation”, p.103, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship
the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.

Vivica Fox

Mean, Games, Play

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But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Timothy Keller

Commitment, Self Righteous, Wells

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

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When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Ken Blanchard

Commitment, No Excuses, Accepting

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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

Halle Berry

Romantic, Want, Hopeless

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If you're in a committed relationship, then you don't want to pursue anything.

Andrew W.K.

Want, Committed, Pursue

"Andrew W.K. And MAKJ On Partying As A Couple". Interview With Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.

Dan Millman

Spiritual, Practice, Breathing

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We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

Mother, Children, Father

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A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

Lionel Shriver

Lying, Successful, World

Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

Karrine Steffans

Men, Want, Committed

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Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Buddhist, Emotional, Hands

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But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.

Marci Shimoff

Men, Like You, Committed

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Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?

Esther Perel

Weight, Village, Today

"How Jupiter in Libra Might Mess Up Marriage for Good" by The Astrotwins, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.

Mark Steyn

Christian, Jesus, Couple

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That’s not the only reason I’m stayin’, chica. I can’t leave you any more than I could walk out that door right now while my leg is busted up. I was just thinkin’ . . . should we tell your parents now or later?” “Tell them what?” I ask, eyes wide. He kisses me softly, then says proudly, “That we’re in a serious, monogamous, committed relationship.” “We are?” “Sí. And when I get out of here, I’m gonna fix the door to your car.

Simone Elkeles

Eye, Kissing, Doors

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For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men the road trip on the way to the destination is often the most fun.
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Sherry Argov

Fun, Men, Way

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But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

Lionel Shriver

Lying, Liars, Successful

Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?

Andrea Thompson

Two, People, Looks

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Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a relationship. Dating is not simply a prelude to a committed relationship or marriage. Dating is an opportunity to evaluate whether the person you are dating is a good candidate for you. You need to pay attention to your partner's positive and negative characteristics. Ask yourself whether you could live with this person for the rest of your life.

David Price

Opportunity, Dating, Pay

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Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.

Mike Huckabee

Love, Selfish, Mean

"Clinton puts squeeze on Dems campaign cash", www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2015.

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