Quotes About Loyalty

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

Como decía mi padre: "lo importante no es el tiempo que uno pasa en algo, sino lo que pasa durante ese tiempo". Cuando bajan los niveles de compromiso no solo se afecta la productividad sino que el servicio al cliente también decae. Lo único que aumenta es el ausentismo y, por razones similares, la rotación de personal.

have always found it to be one of the more intriguing idiosyncrasies of the human condition that a problem that is handled quickly and effectively will almost always serve to generate more long-term customer loyalty than when the original service was delivered satisfactorily.

LADY SNEERWELL. I'm not disappointed in Snake, I never suspected the fellow to have virtue enough to be faithful even to his own Villany.

SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too? PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

The first thing a human being is loyal to, Yen Lo observed, is his own conditioned nervous system.

Oh damn! One measly civil war in the entire history of England and I'm on the wrong bloody side!

Dogs are my favorite people.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.

What's friendship's realest measure? I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.

People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

And to Mindy, I can only ever say a simple thank you. And dedicate the rest of my life to her.

Quoique sans patrie et sans roi, Et très brave ne l'étant guere, J'ai voulu mourir à la guerre. La mort n'a pas voulu de moi.

In his lecture on Jesus, Brown meditated on the unlikely paradox that any institution could represent this man because institutions, by their very nature, have to follow particular laws if they are to survive and prosper; and the main law of institutional survival is that the many take precedence over the few. If institutions are to endure they have to place a higher value on their own endurance than on loyalty to individuals, no matter how attractive or charismatic they may be.

I want you all to understand about moral courage. I know it is not easy. We are trained to fight men, not lies. We are trained to face death and wounds, not public scorn. But to win this fight against lies, we must find the moral courage to endure public scorn and even personal indignities without flinching or retaliating. That is the sacrifice the service of our nation demands of us now. I know we all have the moral courage to make it.

He who lives under it and is disloyal to it is a traitor to the human race everywhere.

We [the military personnel here] serve the flag. The trade we all follow is the give and take of death. It is for that purpose that the American people maintain us. Any one of us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage, is a thief of the food he eats and a trespasser of the bunk in which he lies down to sleep.

What could be saved, if the Flag of the American Nation were to perish?

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all.