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Quotes About Fidelity

When we have pleaded for understanding, our character has been distorted; when we have asked for simple caring, we have been handed empty inspirational appellations, then stuck in a far corner. When we have asked for love, we have been given children. In short, even our plainer gifts, our labors of fidelity and love, have been knocked down our throats.
~ Alice Walker
Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.
~ Carl Jung
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
~ E. H. Chapin
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
~ Edmund Burke
I learn how great hearts feel what sweetness and glory there is to die for the things they love! I saw a father sacrificing himself for his son; he was subjected to charges which a word of his could dispel, — he was mistaken for his boy. With what joy he seized the error, confessed the noble crimes of valour and fidelity which the son had indeed committed, and went to the doom, exulting that his death saved the life he had given, not in vain!
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie.
~ Anonymous
Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to.
~ Masahiro Sakurai
Faithful Christians must work for social justice, but can only do so in the context of fidelity to the full Christian moral and theological vision through which we understand the meaning of justice. Any social justice campaign that implies that the God of the Bible is an enemy of man and his happiness is fraudulent and must be rejected.
~ Rod Dreher
When it comes to survival, maybe what's most important is simple fidelity: not by evangelizing people directly but by developing honest relations with one another—not looking for whether one is good or bad, or judging them by their ideology," says K?ska. "He was constantly observed by the secret police, parked right in front of his home. During the severely cold winters, he would bring them hot tea to warm them up. Because they were people, just like that.
~ Rod Dreher
Didn't lie give you
~ Roderic Jeffries
Not that I would describe fidelity as an exclusive contract, but rather a mutual devotion within shared assumptions. [...] She was greatly distressed, clearly more distressed than my condition warranted, and explained to me that when she was called and told of my accident she had been on the point of going to bed with a friend of mine. She left without a word to come to my side. That is what I mean by fidelity: putting love before pleasure.
~ Romain Gary
Fidelity to the whole of revealed truth is what distinguished good theology from its counterfeits.
~ Romanus Cessario
Sabes que si me marcho es porque te estorbo. No soy un ser normal... soy fiel, te lo aseguro, a mi manera, atrozmente fiel, hasta reventar. Pero me agobia la regularidad de la vida. En realidad, me siento mucho más cerca de la gente cuando la dejo.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A cambio de fidelidad, yo le doy mi imaginación, e incluso mi talento, si se quiere. Nunca he estado satisfecha de nuestras cuentas, pero han de mantenerse.
~ Anais Nin
For true love joins the hearts of two persons with so great a feeling of delight that they cannot desire to embrace anybody else; on the contrary they take care to avoid the solaces of everybody else as though they were horrible things, and they keep themselves for each other.
~ Andreas Capellanus
There are so many people in this world that can be right for each other. If there weren't, then cheating would never be an issue. Everyone would find their one true love and life would be great—relationships would be a piece of cake. But that's not how it is in reality, and I realize this.
~ Samit Basu
AFFIDATION  (AFFIDA'TION)  AFFIDATURE  (AFFIDA'TURE)  n.s.[from  affido, Lat.See AFFIED.] Mutual contract; mutual oath of fidelity. Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
Chastity is the crown and glory of a woman. The most profligate of men love modesty in the sex, at the very time they are forming plots to destroy it in a particular object.
~ Samuel Richardson
Fidelity is for phonographs
~ Saul Bellow
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
~ John Barth
And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair.
~ John Donne
the disappearance in our lives of a sense of the sacred. With nothing to evoke awe, wonder, or devotion, we inevitably feel empty within, Maslow contended, for these are intrinsic human needs. In a similar way, we have lost genuine heroes; the very concept of heroism has become suspect, old-fashioned, and seemingly obsolete. The same has occurred with such traditional virtues as courage, fidelity, and reverence.
~ Edward Hoffman
The ending of hypocrisy in front of humility and fidelity The sun is rising again for all, regardless of distinctions A new journey, with a new hope God bless the universe
~ Ehsan Sehgal
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
~ Elbert Hubbard