Quotes About Loyalty

Sometimes when the Japanese maids, in crisp white uniforms, had withdrawn, a Roosevelt appointee would ask timorously, "These Japanese, can they be trusted?" And The Fort invariably replied, "We've had Sumiko for eighteen years, and we've never known a better or more loyal maid.

honor included not only physical and moral courage but also a daring commitment to central beliefs

There will never be rebellion here. In Richmond and Williamsburg there has been talk. Jefferson isn't reliable and Patrick Henry is a born troublemaker of no substance whatever. No, sir, Virginia stands fast with the king.

The count says we're Austrians now. But the countess tells me on the sly: 'You're Polish and always will be.' I asked her if she was Polish too, and she said: 'Forever.' " Tytus led his son to a window, and as if to lend emphasis to what he was about to say, pointed toward the river: "As long as the Vistula flows, it waters the soul of Poland.

It's Elvish, Tummeler repeated. It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed. Well, doesn't it perhaps mean that the magic word that opens the door is 'allegiance'? Said Jack. In Elvish? That's a stupid idea, said John. Then anyone who spoke Elvish could get in.

Extending trust to those who have already proven themselves untrustworthy is a bit like cutting off the end of a rope and sewing it to the other end to make it longer.

If there is a rule about being loyal to your company, it is a stupid rule. And that's what short-cutting is all about: identifying stupid rules and refusing to allow them to have power over you.

Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.

Picture a company that pays its workers the bare minimum, and refuses them health insurance, paid vacation time, and other benefits. Its executives wish for profits, but lasting success cannot be built on the backs of discontented, disloyal, overworked, underproductive employees.

It is the epoch of threatening disaster, ruin, and persecution which divides the sheep from the goats

This applies not just to customers but everyone in your life. Everyone. If someone no longer has your best interest at heart, then in your own self-interest you need to back off. Now.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours. Be the source of valuable information rather than the source of your "product of the day.

Don't forget to always give extra. A simple effort will get you a customer for life.

All of my friends are superheroes, too. Each one of my friends has a different power. But they are all amazing powers and I'm blessed when I see those powers in action. And once someone joins the bad guys, they are no longer my friend. I'm busy saving lives. I don't need bad friends.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours.

If you start hanging around with people who don't love and support you, then you'll die.

The most important thing in life," she told me, "more important than anything else by far, is friendship.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have. (Think about it).

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I

Vivaldo was unlike everyone else that he knew in that they, all the others, could only astonish him by kindness or fidelity; it was only Vivaldo who had the power to astonish him by treachery.

I had a girl friend, named Geneva, a kind of loud, raunchy girl ... and she was always into something. Naturally she was my best friend, since I was never into anything. I was skinny and scared and so I followed her and got into all her shit. Nobody else wanted me, really, and you know that nobody else wanted her.

He could not endure being very far from me for very long. I was the only person on God's cold, green earth who cared about him, who knew his speech and silence, knew his arms, and did not carry a knife.