Quotes About Loyalty

En segundo lugar, debes aborrecer su empeño por hacer que la cruz te resulte odiosa, porque has de preferirla 'antes que los tesoros en Egipto'. Además, el Rey de Gloria te había dicho que 'todo el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá', y 'Si alguno viene a mí, y no aborrece a su padre, y madre, y mujer, e hijos, y hermanos, y hermanas, y aun también su propia vida, no puede ser mi discípulo'.

Good friends, I shall always remember your kindness. If ever you are in trouble, you may come to the Castle of Lea. Its walls may be battered to the ground before harm shall befall you.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don't give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.

A dream requires a partner: commitment.

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment, you create trust.

1. Experience: People who have been down the road of life and understand it. 2. Heart for God: People who place God first and uphold His values. 3. Objectivity: People who see the pros and cons of the issues. 4. Love for people: People who love others and value them more than things. 5. Complementary gifts: People who bring diverse gifts to the relationship. 6. Loyalty to the leader: People who truly love and are concerned for the leader. The Maxwell Leadership Bible

What's worse than training your people and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Trust men and they will be true to you: treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Author and conference speaker Richard Exley explained his idea of friendship this way: "A true friend is one who hears and understands when you share your deepest feelings. He supports you when you are struggling; he corrects you, gently and with love, when you err; and he forgives you when you fail. A true friend prods you to personal growth, stretches you to your full potential. And most amazing of all, he celebrates your successes as if they were his own.

Any time you make a commitment to something, it will be tested. If something is worth doing, I will commit myself to carrying it through.

My friend Dan Reiland says, "A genuine friend encourages and challenges us to live out our best thoughts, honor our purest motives, and achieve our most significant dreams." That's what we need to do with the important people in our lives.

Charles Schwab: Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kind and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus say that "trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

La confianza se construye un ladrillo a la vez, pero si se destruye, toda la pared se viene al suelo».

Or as Mike Otis put it, "Business goes where it wants to, but it stays where it's appreciated."20

Siendo un líder de nivel intermedio en una organización, su habilidad para mantener la autoridad que le han dado depende completamente de su fidelidad para servir a las personas que le dieron esa autoridad. De la misma forma, usted debe cuidarse de intentar avanzar a expensas de su líder. Y sería sabio no tener una conversación de «si yo estuviera a cargo» con otro miembro del personal. Si usted tiene problemas con sus líderes, hable con ellos.

But now that she had made him her confidant, he saw that he could not change this relationship.

Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone a little wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this fault, by the scene of the crime, until the day we die.

He had dragged her good name through a hundred escapades, debauched her excellence, and thrown away her love, but she had never imagined that he would betray her in their plans for the end of the world.

The belief that a crooked heart is betrayed by palsies, tics, and other infirmities dies hard.

Confession is not betrayal, what you say or do doesn't matter. Only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you that would be the real betrayal.