Quotes About Loyalty

First and foremost he must learn to be faithful to his superiors, to keep promises, to refuse the friendship of all who are not like him. And if he finds he has made a mistake, then he must not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending his ways.

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

We are nothing but the oath we give.

Temujin snorted. "Never lose faith in me, little brother. My word is iron and I will always come home.

Be careful of raising me too high, brother. I have no special strength, unless it is in choosing good men to follow me. The great lie of cities is that we are all too weak to stand against those who oppress us. All I have done is see through that lie. I always fight, Kachiun. Kings and shahs depend on people remaining sheep, too afraid to rise up. All I ever did was realize I can be a wolf to them.

You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.

The man attempted to salute and Renius forced himself to smile, biting back his temper at the sloppy manners. He watched the fat figure run away into the buildings and wiped the first beads of sweat from his brow. Strange that such men as that should understand loyalty where so many others threw it aside at the first hint of freedom.

They are the great tribe," Temujin replied, almost to himself. His voice was so quiet that Kachiun had to strain to hear. "I will give them a family again. I will bring them in and I will make them hard and I will send them against those who killed our father. I will write the name of Yesugei in Tartar blood and, when we are strong, I will come back from the north and scatter the Wolves in the snow.

How did you make Khasar accept you to succeed me?" Genghis murmured to his back. "I told him he could be khan," Kachiun replied. "I think it terrified him.

When we meet again, Spartan,' he murmured aloud, in prayer, 'when you ask me what we did after your death, I will not be ashamed. I promise you that. I will bring them back.

Genghis had once told him he should never give an order they would not obey. He should never let them see the limits of his authority. The

The world has grown too large for one army of the nation, my brother. You will ride where I tell you to ride, conquer where I tell you to conquer. The world is yours, if you can put aside the base part of you that tells you to rule it all. That you may not have. Now give me an answer and your oath. Your word is iron, brother, and I will take it. Or I can just kill you now.

You respect orders because if you don't do this, you won't be able to expect the same from your people. You're a part of the wolf and not the entire wolf. A wolf cannot have more than one head, general, because it will fall apart

You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.

You're not children to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.

I will need good friends around me if I am to survive my first year of politics. My father described it as walking barefoot in a nest of vipers.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —GEORGE ORWELL

Nothing sapped morale like the fear of being attacked from behind.

I fear I am once more in your debt, Mr. Owens," she said, her voice shaking just a bit. "Think nothing of it," Jim said, calmly replacing his pistol in its shoulder holster and leaning back on his bedroll. He no longer got rattled at having to shoot things, climb things, chase things, or dive into things to snatch her back from the precipices she seemed always to be leaning over. It was all in the day's work. "Please. Continue with what you were saying.

About twenty-eight hundred dogs serve in the US military.

we are betrayed in the very same close relationships where primal trust is possible. We can be truly betrayed only where we truly trust—by brothers, lovers, wives, husbands, not by enemies, not by strangers. The greater the love, the greater the betrayal. Trust has in it the seed of betrayal.

For years of faithfulness even as a child are not thrown away, but yield . . . a strength at last in times of trial.