Commitment Quotes Novels & Stories

“Drink?” I shook my head. “I think I drank enough last night.” A small smirk curled his lips, but he didn’t push. Instead, he leaned against the bar, watching me. “Are you having second thoughts?” I lifted my chin. “No.” “Good.” He took a slow sip of his whiskey. “Because once I commit to something, I don’t go back on my word.” His words sounds like both a promise and a warning. I crossed my arms. “Neither do I.”

The room stilled, and the older shareholder frowned slightly. I continued. “I believed complete commitment meant giving everything.” My voice remained steady. “I believed the company had to come first.” I met the shareholder’s gaze. “And that belief nearly destroyed my life.” The words landed exactly where they needed to. For the first time, some of them looked uncomfortable. They should because too many people in this room had spent years glorifying sacrifice without acknowledging its consequences. “I won’t make that mistake again.” The statement was simple. A younger executive leaned forward slightly.

Her voice hardened again, the doubt sealed over, the mask reassembled. "I believe in commitment. I believe in showing up. I believe in choosing someone every day, even when the feeling isn't there, even when the fire has gone out, even when the person you chose isn't the person you dreamed of. That's what marriage is, Adam. Not fireworks. Not rivers. Not grand, suicidal gestures. Showing up. And I showed up. Every single day. While you were unconscious, while you were dreaming about her, I was in meetings with your father and my father and a team of twelve lawyers, making sure that when you woke up, you would still have a life to come back to."

He continued. “We live in a time that treats promises lightly. As though commitment is optional. As though desire alone is justification.” A ripple of agreement moved through the congregation. I felt heat rise to my face, my heart started the kind of race and pound combo that it does whenever I feel doom lurking. He didn’t look at me. Not yet. “A vow,” he said, “is not made when one feels nothing. It is made in full knowledge that feeling may come… and still, one chooses obedience.”

Getting it, he began to flip the pages of the big book that could be mistaken for an encyclopedia. His eyes stumbled on a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. It said: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." He raised his eyes from the quote, and his brain began to process the words, mechanically. Then a question popped up: What am I silent about? Anderson quickly hopped down from his bed. He took a jotter and began to scribble, quickly. Done, he skedaddled his eyes through what he'd written. He checked the calendar on his phone; two weeks till next month.

As you look upon a flower and admire its simplicity - remember me. Remember me in your heart, your thoughts, your memories of the times we loved, the times we cried, the times we fought, the times we laughed. For if you always think of me, I will never be gone. Margaret Mead “Let us never forget those who gave all to Skatom Mochain,” I said and lowered my glass to drink. I can say one thing for sure, this stuff wasn’t for the weak, it burned a bit going down.

"I Marck Black, take you as my wife Jenna Lombardi and promise to spend the rest of my days loving you, brightening your days, supporting you and being happy by your side. My life has become the center of yours, because our lives are not life if they are not together. That is why I ask you today to stay by my side and be my eternal friend, lover and confidant. I promise that, even if you were wrong, I will never say 'I told you so', no matter if I had really warned you. I promise that I will always be a gentleman in our discussions and a real animal in bed". Jenna reacted to these words by saying. "Mark, hahahahaha." "I promise to always put the toilet seat down, never forget to take out the

the judge said. "While the commitment begins with the two of you, its effect radiates outward. It touches your family and friends and ultimately all of society. When this commitment is seriously made and continuously fulfilled, it leads to the richest and most rewarding of human relationships. Your relationship will take more than love. It will take trust, to know in your hearts that you want only the best for each other. Dedication, to stay open to one another, to learn and grow, even when it is difficult to do so. And faith, to go forward together without knowing what the future holds for you both."

I promised without hesitation, my commitment unwavering. Ashton nodded firmly, a sense of relief washing over him. "Then I'll let go. No more building doomsday shelters for 'what ifs' and you need to stop using 'I'm doing my job' as an excuse. I'm fully aware that you're on duty eighty-five percent of the time we're together."

In all these years, he'd never come close to breaking that promise but ever since he met Faith, he was in danger of breaking that promise. He recalled the conversation he had with her father that day. Much like his daughter, he started with, "Can I ask you a question?" He'd smiled to himself at that. "Yes, you may." "You said last night that you don't do commitments. What does that mean? I'm not in touch with you youngsters anymore but it seems that is a trend among you younger folks now." "It's not a trend for me." "Okay," he acknowledged. "What does that mean?"