Quotes about loyalty

Surgeo Bell -

Don't be so impatient in finding love take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book.

Napz Cherub Pellazo -

Loyalty makes you family Keep this rare personality

Shannon L. Alder -

Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.

Philip Zaleski - Charles Williams

The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism he pushed at its borders.

Allen C. Guelzo -

Patriotism without criticism has no head criticism without patriotism has no heart.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson - Mrs. Tuesday's Departure

Solidarity was admirable loyalty was the person standing next to you when the devil came to call.

Janvier Chando - The Union Moujik

We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is only found in groups.

Taylor Lautner -

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

Bryant H. McGill -

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Bert McCoy -

Don't be so loyal to your mind the mind is not loyal to You.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando - Flash of the Sun

It is not something we often find out but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.

Jeremy Aldana -

If I were not to put my arms out would I have not caught you when you fell

Jaachynma N.E. Agu - The Best Option

Friendship is like a walk in the wood you may not know the terrain too well or even know where you are headed yet you enjoy it all the same!

Bryant McGill - Voice of Reason

Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.

Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first, to the chosen adventure, but then, also, to the ideals of the order of knighthood. Now, this second commitment seems to put Gawain's way in opposition to the way of the Buddha, who when ordered by the Lord of Duty to perform the social duties proper to his caste, simply ignored the command, a

LordBloodySoul -

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.

Gift Gugu Mona -

You will not live the life of royalty, if you don't understand the meaning of loyalty.

Emma Donoghue - Room

Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."Ma says it but on mute.I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass."Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -"The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words."Harry...Potter..."And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes w

Ziad K. Abdelnour - Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.People always suddenly miss you more once they see how much happier you are without them.Learn the real from the fake....and don't worry about the mistakes you make.There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with

Gypsie M. Holley -

I don't have time is the worst possible excuse for I'd rather be doing something else. You MAKE time! Whether it be family, friends or an activity, like reading it's all in what you WANT to do. The heartbreaking moment is when you have extended time & devotion sometimes years with someone you knew to be worthy who can return it & they CHOOSE not to.

K.A. Cross - Life on the Rocks

There’s the feisty bitch I know and love. Now come on, it’s time to show Jai and his prick of a dad who the head poncho is around here.” She said giggling, as I slowly let her go and took a step back.“Head poncho, don’t you mean…?” I started before she cut me off.“Shh, let’s just pretend I didn’t say that. Now shift it missy, it’s arse whooping time. Yeehaaa.” She said, making me burst out into laughter.She was right, it was time I showed them who I am.

John Buchan - The 39 Steps

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

Steve Maraboli -

Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.

Steve Maraboli -

When you put yourself in the customer’s shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty.

Steve Maraboli -

As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT!

Wayne Gerard Trotman - Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.

Markus Zusak - Underdogs

Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn't bleed for any of them, because he wouldn't trust them to bleed for him. In that way he's just as alone as me.

Julio Alexi Genao - Collected

people say life is

Peter St. John - Gang Loyalty

Why weren't there any women in Jesus' gang?’ asked Winnifred. ‘Jesus' gang?’ echoed the vicar surprised. ‘Jesus never had a gang. Ah— you mean the Twelve.’ Winnifred nodded. The vicar looked perplexed. ‘Well, it wouldn't really have been appropriate, would it?’ ‘Why not?’ I asked. ‘It just wouldn't,’ replied the vicar, looking annoyed at my question. ‘But Jesus had a lot of girl friends,’ said Pearl. ‘He certainly didn't,’ replied the vicar, shocked. ‘But Vicar, what about Mary and Martha, the s

Dietrich Bonhoeffer - The Cost of Discipleship

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus a

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

No person is more ruthlessly cheated than someone strip-mined of his or her ability to recall the vibrancy of the past. After all, what would any person be if robbed of all sense of long-term memory? Without memories, all that any person would know about life is if he or she was hungry or thirsty, cold or hot. Without memories of the past and shredded of any illusion of a future there cannot be a frame for our existence. Without a sense of memory, we lack cognition of the very essence of our bei

Erin Hunter - The Empty City

I can’t give up my faith in the longpaws. I understand that we can’t rely on the longpaws to help us anymore. But one of us has to remember. One of us has to carry the memories for the rest of the Pack. I’ll do it.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values!

Jane Austen - Love and Friendship

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

Sara Sheridan -

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

Emm Cole - Merminia

You will never be lost to me, Selinne.

Emily Thorne -

Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build... and only seconds to destroy.

Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

R.J. Palacio -

I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.

John Milton - Paradise Lost

So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found,Among the faithless, faithful only hee;Among innumerable false, unmov'd,Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'dHis Loyaltie he kept, his Love, his Zeale;Nor number, nor example with him wroughtTo swerve from truth, or change his constant mindThough single. From amidst them forth he passd,Long way through hostile scorn, which he susteindSuperior, nor of violence fear'd aught;And with retorted scorn his back he turn'dOn those proud Towrs to swift destruction doom

Matt Chandler - Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine

Jordan Silver - The Forever Girl

JACKSON: When I’m in I’m all in.....

Jordan Silver - The Forever Girl

JACKSON: When I give my word I mean that sh*t and I have no respect for anyone who breaks their word so easily.

EX-MARINES -

There's no such thing as an ex-marine.

Frank Herbert - Dune

Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Help!"This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. Suddenly my clothes were seized by a strong hand, and I felt myself quickly drawn up to the surface of the sea; and I heard, yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear:"If master would be so good as to lean on my shoulder, master would swim with much greater ease."I seized with one hand my faithful Conseil's arm. "Is it you?" said I, "you?""Myself," answered Conseil; "and waiting master's orders

Guillaume Faye - Why We Fight

We fight for a vision of the world that is both traditional and Faustian, that allies enrootment and disinstallation, the citizen’s freedom and imperial service to the community-as-a-people, passionate creativity and critical reason, an unshakeable loyalty and an adventurous curiosity (WWF 267)

Scott Tipton - Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time

Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.

Stephen Morrill - 5th

They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions. And an employer is capable of firing you at any time.

Gyan Nagpal - Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.

Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera

Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

Nadia Scrieva -

He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn’t even a mercenary have morals? That’s the textbook definition of a whore!

Jury Nel -

Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven.

William Shakespeare - Othello

DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write “whore” upon?

Bryan Litfin - After Acts: Exploring the Lives and Legends of the Apostles

The author sees Luke's loyalty to the apostle Paul "depicted architecturally in the great church at Rome known as St. Paul Outside the Walls. There, a statue of Luke holding a writing stylus commemorates not only his work as a Gospel author but his faithfulness to Paul.

Vinko Vrbanic - Furmani - Sokolov let

Mara Margetić from Slavonski Kobaš stands next to Marija Bursać from Kamenica, or even to Judith the daughter of Merari from Bethulia. What a moving example of love, perseverance and loyalty!

Stanley Ager - The Butler's Guide to Running the Home and Other Graces

To Stanley Ager, the gift of human "service" was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of loyalty in return was implicit.

Kevin Stirtz - More Loyal Customers: 21 Real World Lessons to Keep Your Customers Coming Back

Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.

St. Patrick - and Epistle to the Soldiers

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

Tiana Dalichov - Agenda 46

Loyalty is the key to our survival. Without it, we are just like them.

Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles - Manon Lescaut

The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your ennui: for it is the fidelity of the heart alone that I value.

Seanan McGuire - The Winter Long

You’ll always come back to warn him, no matter how much danger it could put you in, no matter what it costs you, because he cared for you when you thought you were nothing. You were never nothing. That didn’t matter. Perception is everything in this world

Drexel Deal - The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it’s loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.

sheik ahmed hassoun -

A silent tongue does not betray its owner

Ellen J. Barrier - How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed

A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location.

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

Cassandra Clare - City of Lost Souls

He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.

G.K. Chesterton - 1908-1910

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.

Confucius - The Analects

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

Cassandra Clare - City of Ashes

Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --""He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He’s gone.”“He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,” said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

Marissa Meyer - Scarlet

Besides, if you are who you claim to be, that makes you my true queen. Therefore, you have my loyalty.

Judith McNaught - A Kingdom of Dreams

Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when shebids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!"-Royce Westmoreland

Cassandra Clare - Clockwork Princess

You are a Lightwood," Cecily said. "You stayed because you were loyal to your family name. It is not cowardice.""Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?"Cecily opened her mouth, then closed it again. Gabriel was looking for her, his eyes shining in the moonlight. He seemed genuinely desperate to hear her answer. She wondered if he had anyone else to talk to. She could see how it might be terrifying to take one's moral qualms to Gideon; he seemed so staunch, as i

Emily Giffin -

His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.

Joyce Maynard - Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

Maurice Franks -

Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart -- the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it -- and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.

L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.

Agatha Christie - Peril at End House

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

Elbert Hubbard - Works of Elbert Hubbard

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve

Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows

I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged herself through the leaves. The way she lay there, I thought she was alive. I called her name. She made no movement. With the last ounce of strength in her body, she had dragged herself to the grave of Old Dan.

Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

Émile Zola - Une Page d'amour

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

Jeffrey Gitomer -

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

Paulo Coelho - Manuscript Found in Accra

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don't score points for past action,

Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert] Trivers together with the economists Robert Frank and Jack Hirshleifer has pointed out that pure magnanimity can evolve in an environment of people seeking to discriminate fair weather friends from loya

Ellen J. Barrier -

Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who has it, gives it free of charge.

William Shakespeare - Othello

My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord.

Samuel Butler - Hudibras

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Andy Stanley -

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon -

Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth “clear as the sun, fair as the moon,” and what besides—why, “amazing as an army withbanners”! A consistent Church is an amazing Church—an honest, upright Church would shake the world! The tramp ofgodly men is the tramp of heroes; these are the thundering legions that sweep everything before them. The men that arewhat they profess to be, hate the semblanc

Janet Robinson -

Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.

Robert Morse -

One never knows how loyalty is born.

Ada Velez-Boardley -

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

Donna Lynn Hope -

Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know?When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.