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Quotes About Loyalty

Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
~ Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Loyalty to a party, Einstein felt, meant surrendering some independence of thought. Such conformity confounded him. "How an intelligent man can subscribe to a party I find a complete mystery
~ Walter Isaacson
He never trusted Jobs with a key to the stockroom.
~ Walter Isaacson
If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. Mr.
~ Walter Isaacson
Look, Steve, you're my best friend, and Apple is your company. I'll do whatever you want.
~ Walter Isaacson
I'm deeply grateful to John and Ann Doerr, Laurene Powell, Mona Simpson, Leon Wieseltier, and Ken Auletta, all of whom provided invaluable support along the way. Alice Mayhew, who has been my editor at Simon & Schuster for thirty years, and Jonathan Karp, the publisher, both were extraordinarily diligent and attentive in shepherding this book, as was
~ Walter Isaacson
when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
~ Walter Isaacson
That's why I'm here to kiss the corporate ass. I don't kiss everybody's.
~ Walter Isaacson
McCollum believed in military
~ Walter Isaacson
The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn't love him—the United States government," Einstein said.
~ Walter Isaacson
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
~ Walter Isaacson
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
~ Walter Isaacson
Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.
~ Walter Mosley
Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.
~ Walter Mosley
It's the strongest love that makes the greatest treachery. The worst thing you can say to somebody is that you will be there no matter what and then fail to show.
~ Walter Mosley
He might not be a good man but he is a good son.
~ Walter Mosley
Leadership," said Nimitz, "consists of picking good men and helping them do their best for you. The attributes of loyalty, discipline and devotion to duty on the part of subordinates must be matched by patience, tolerance and understanding on the part of superiors."24
~ Walter R. Borneman
My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
~ Walter Scott
I want to speak with you," she said, "and I have placed honest Thornie betwixt Rashleigh and you on purpose. He will be like— Feather-bed 'twixt castle wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball, while I, your earliest acquaintance in this intellectual family, ask of you how you like us all?
~ Walter Scott
There goes a true-bred Campbell, said Montrose, as the envoy departed, for they are ever fair and false.
~ Walter Scott
Besides, when a man of talent shows himself an able and useful partisan, his party will continue to protect and accredit him, in spite of conduct the most contradictory to their own principles.
~ Walter Scott
cared for no rogues but their own
~ Walter Scott
Traitor's word never yet hurt honest cause
~ Walter Scott
But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is often the most suspicious mask of other feelings;
~ Walter Scott