Bob Greene Quotes

A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

This is a business of love and labor.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

I'd like to be the best boyfriend I can possibly be.

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

If I'm in a relationship, I'll go to the ends of the earth. If I'm on the road and we have a conversation, and she says, "God, I really wish I was there with you right now," I'll hang up the phone, send a car, and have the plane ready.

You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won't be an end.

It’s the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It’s the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.

How much love did you put into what you did?

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.