Quotes About Loyalty

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Truth resides where there is faith.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

I learned something recently: our true friends are those are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with the sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives. When things were bad last year, various people I had never ever seen before turned up to 'console' me. I hate that.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed behind his back.

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

When you forgive, the person who insulted you feels humbled in his error and becomes loyal.

The true lover is not the one who says: You need to be by my side and I need to take care of you, because we are loyal to each other, but the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom. And without fear of betrayal, he accepts and respects the other person's dream, trusting in the greater power of Love.

It doesn't matter, he said to his sheep. I know other girls in other places. But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.

Loyalty has its roots in respects, and respect is the fruit of Love.

She still lives in a world in which people are faithful and vows of love are forever.

Loyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity, or intimidation.

The true lover is the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom.

Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you'll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them. You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.

Guys name their kettlebells like they name their guns. They paint them with their units' coats of arms. They get tattoos of kettlebells. The Russian kettlebell is the Harley-Davidson of weights.

If a kettlebell were a person, it would be the type of a guy you would want [on your side] in an alley fight. —Glenn Buechlein, powerlifter

I don't know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.

Ah well, Liang was her husband and she would never have another. Even had she been young and beautiful she would not have run from man to man as women did nowadays. But she was neither young nor beautiful and she was grateful for Liang. It was honorable to be his wife, and if he had a peevish temper at home, he might have been worse. He had never beaten her, and she had learned, after all these years, how to torture him.