Top 95 Marriage Commitment Sayings
#1. A marriage is a way of accepting love and commitment of a man and woman in front of God, before moving to a new life.
Santonu Kumar Dhar
#2. When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'
Mark Udall
#3. (Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other's needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.
Alessandra Torre
#4. The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever,' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you.
Diana Palmer
#5. Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out want to marry him on even days of the month, so to date we've been spared commitment.
Janet Evanovich
#7. Honor your wife by fulfilling your commitment to be faithful, for she has already honored you by believing that you will.
Ilya Atani
#8. Commitment, I finally said. Both people have to be committed. I think if two people are committed to the marriage, if they really want to make it work, then they'll find a way to do it. No matter what happens in life.
Nicholas Sparks
#9. When you consider the many pressures that couples face today, only an iron-clad determination will hold them together for a lifetime. Those who go into marriage with a mushy commitment are likely to wobble and fall apart when the hard times come. And as we all know, hard times will come.
James C. Dobson
#10. Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.
Rob Liano
#11. I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be
Lori Colombo-Dunham
#12. Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
Ravi Zacharias
#13. I hadn't really even been thinking about TV. To me, it seemed like such a commitment, almost like a marriage.
Juno Temple
#14. I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.
David Cameron
#15. 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 Farrell
#16. A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
Helen Fisher
#17. If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all.
Ron Brackin
#19. I genuinely believe that we will look back on today as a landmark for equality in Britain ... No matter who you are and who you love, we are all equal. Marriage is about love and commitment, and it should no longer be denied to people just because they are gay.
Nick Clegg
#20. Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
Malcolm Turnbull
#21. The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.
Bill Cosby
#22. The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow For better or for worse
it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option
Tom Brokaw
#23. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.
Shannon L. Alder
#24. For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind games, no judging each other. For me, marriage is pure joyful companionship.
Shon Mehta
#25. Remember, marriage is not a contractual arrangement. True love doesn't say, "Make me feel this way if you want me to stay." That's not love. Instead, true love says in commitment, "I'm giving myself to you regardless.
Matt Chandler
#26. 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
#27. Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.
Ayelet Waldman
#28. sex has a price tag. What price will you write on the tag? Is it something cheap, that can be given away with no commitment and short-term fulfilment. Or is it a precious, intimate gift, to be shared with one person under the covenant of marriage?
Sarah Coleman
#29. Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
Esther Perel
#30. Marriage is a long-term commitment. You should only step into that commitment if you truly love the person and want to spend your life with her.
Nick Vujicic
#31. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
#32. I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.
George Osborne
#33. It's called restraint, the part that wants to wander is always there, even for straight people. But commitment is commitment. Once I sign on the dotted line, I'll devote myself to that person only.
Jay Bell
#34. You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.
Kay Robertson
#35. I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.
Diane Kruger
#36. Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be.
Ravi Zacharias
#37. Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.
Greta Scacchi
#38. Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.
Francis Chan
#39. I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work.
Amy E. Spiegel
#40. All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.
Anthony Liccione
#41. I don't see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is important to me; it's about honouring that commitment.
Greg Wise
#42. We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.
Pope Francis
#43. Marriage is a commitment to do the right thing beyond the emotion of feeling loved
Blake L. Higginbotham
#44. If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#45. What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness.
Timothy Keller
#47. No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
Elisabeth Elliot
#48. 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
#49. I wasn't thinking of marriage, just commitment.
I wasn't thinking of forever, just reveling in now.
We don't know yet how long we're meant to be-
there are so many obstacles down the road.
But there is also possibility; the ring marks the realm of possibility.
David Levithan
#50. No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution - but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.
H. Kirk Rainer
#51. Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.
Joel Osteen
#53. Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted.
Lucille Anderson
#54. Darling, I would follow you through the blackest midnight - just not without my trousers!
Seth Adam Smith
#55. The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership ... This is the holy ground.
James Taylor
#56. In a burst of hideous insight, DeDe realized the depth of her commitment to this marriage. She had just traded adultery for a cheeseburger and an order of french fries.
Armistead Maupin
#57. In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.
Robert Sexton
#58. More often than not, a woman marries for money and a man marries for sex. What difference does a sheet of paper with signatures make?"
"If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the answer," she said simply.
Diana Palmer
#59. You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage - or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant - without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.
H. Kirk Rainer
#60. Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
James Dobson
#61. Men ... be the man of your home.. Love your family and protect your wives ... so at the end of the day ... it wont matter if you live in a cardboard box ... the love between you will always be enough.
Erica Stone
#62. Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage.
Neil Clark Warren
#63. Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!
Dave Willis
#64. God's true love pretty much nullifies dating as we know it ...
It seems that dating as we have come to know it doesn't really prepare us for marriage; instead it can be a training ground for divorce. We cannot practice life-long commitment in a series of short-term relationships.
Joshua Harris
#65. Marriage is a commitment that requires effort and communication. Sometimes, it also requires a little creativity. Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. So be the bigger person skip the 'E' and let it 'Go'.
Pravin Agarwal
#66. Bishop Hostettler explained that baptism was not the means by which one is saved, but simply an outward sign of salvation. Just as an Amishman's beard is an indication of his marriage and commitment to his wife, so baptism symbolizes our covenant with Christ.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#67. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.
Sheree' Griffin
#68. Along that straight and true path there are other goals: missionary service, temple marriage, Church activity, scripture study, prayer, temple work. There are countless worthy goals to reach as we travel through life. Needed is our commitment to reach them.
Thomas S. Monson
#69. I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.
Joan Didion
#70. The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.
Anthony Liccione
#71. I had complete faith that this was a man who would keep his promises, who would always be there when I needed him, who would always have my best interests at heart. Together we would be able to face anything in life.
Rosemary K. West
#72. The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage
Robin Jones Gunn
#73. There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.
Wanda Sykes
#74. God's plan for you, whether you're married, single, or about to be married, unless He gives you the gift of singleness, is to be in a warm, loving marriage relationship, characterized by open communication, a lot of hard work, deep commitment, setting boundaries, and doing it God's way.
Chip Ingram
#75. Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
Dada Vaswani
#76. It is not the lack of commitment that destroys marriages, it is the lack of purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
Jane Ridley
#78. Agape love, on the other hand, is unselfish, unconditional, and unstoppable. It is based upon choice and commitment, not feelings. So unless this kind of love forms the foundation of your marriage, the wear and tear of time could destroy it.
Alex Kendrick
#79. I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
Desmond Tutu
#80. This will be for life. For eternity, human and beyond. More than any commitment, than any marriage. Violet, are you ready to marry me?
Jessica Shirvington
#81. Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
Nicholas Sparks
#82. Only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life.
Pope Francis
#83. If you're willing to live in a cardboard box on the streets with him, then marry him.
Lori Colombo-Dunham
#85. There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
Jeremy Sisto
#86. A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
Toni Bentley
#87. Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share.
Debasish Mridha
#88. What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing.
Max Kellerman
#89. Actually, I'm hoping we might have that. A commitment through time, past, present, future... marriage.
Amy Tan
#90. Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death.
Wayne Mack
#92. Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.
Elizabeth George
#93. Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.
Chester Bennington
#94. I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.
Alanis Morissette
#95. The commitment of marriage can frequently arouse some rather peculiar behaviour in men and women alike, but the bizarre notion that one can change the character of one's mate seems to occur more often to women than to men.
Alan Jay Lerner
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