Commitment proverbs

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◆ We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

- Cornel West99

◆ A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

- Barack Obama99

◆ 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'Engle99

◆ The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.

- Steve Hall99

◆ We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

- Ernesto Guevara99

◆ If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

- John Mayer99

◆ If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

- Criss Jami99

◆ When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

- Warren Farrell99

◆ Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

- Peter F. Drucker99

◆ Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

- Mario Andretti99

◆ True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ 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.

- Agatha Christie99