Quotes About Loyalty

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die." I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

Oh that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard.

People often use partisan identity to fill the void left when their other attachments wither away - ethnic, neighborhood, religious, communal and familial. This is asking more from politics than politics can deliver. Once politics becomes your ethnic or moral identity, it becomes impossible to compromise, because compromise becomes dishonor.

outside of my family, the biggest thing in my life. I'd had fights over him, I'd got beaten up because of him.

One by one, my pals from the old days drifted away, checking on me every once in a while and, seeing that there was nothing to be done—I would not listen to anyone at the time, no matter what they said—eventually leaving me to my obsession.

By my reckoning, you are issued about a dozen friends in life, and if one of mine happens to be in a prison jumpsuit, well, better him than me, but that doesn't erase the bond.

Wolves hate farewells,...

So the lesson is – 'only bank with your bank'. Only let your high-street bank run your current account. If you do any other business with the likes of HSBC, Barclays, RBS, Lloyds, Natwest then the chances are that you are paying for over-priced, poorly-performing products.

When I was about Walter's age, I remember asking my father why one's country should demand more loyalty than friends, family, or conscience, and seeing the look of surprise on his face when he found he lacked a convincing answer.

Opposition to the current ruler doesn't make one a traitor to the state

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

No matter what bosses say, it's all about them. You are just an instrument to them. They'll treat you well as long as you're useful.

But by swearing fealty ... you gave me everything." "I saw you need it." My scorn dripped. "This afternoon, by my shame?" "No, my lord. Tonight, by your fear." He sighed. "Now, perhaps, you can allow yourself a friend.

Fiver hung onto my arm as if I was the last boat on the Lusitania.

I'm not so concerned as to whether God is on my side or not, but I am concerned as to whether I'm on God's side or not.

A pet is something to love, a dog particularly. He loves you without opinion or judgment, he does not speak to you indignantly, he does not confuse your affections with foolish ideas and odd perspectives; he merely loves. I sometimes think of how easy it was for my father to favor you, Cassius.

Every one of her foxey ways was now so absolutely precious to him that I believe that if he had known for certain she was dead, and had thoughts of marrying a second time, he would never have been happy with a woman. No, indeed, he would have been more tempted to get himself a tame fox, and would have counted that as good a marriage as he could make.

Heart of oak are our ships,Heart of oak are our men:We always are ready;Steady, boys, steady;We'll fight, and we'll conquer again and again.

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.