Quotes About Loyalty

LOYAL TO THE SOIL—WE NEED WATER NOT OIL and IF WE DESTROY CREATION, CREATION WILL DESTROY US.

He liked order and precision, and his crew knew it. He had hand-picked each and every one of them, and he'd never sailed with a finer group of men. Not that he would ever say it out loud, but they knew it.

Keep them poor and keep them tired, and they'll never leave." How well he understood his people.

If there was something about Jones's demands on his followers that they didn't understand, it shouldn't be questioned—God didn't want them doing that, either. To challenge Jim Jones was to challenge the Lord, and God would respond accordingly.

Truett was more interested in the business growing people than he was in people growing the business. And that's exactly how his business grew. When you are FOR the people in and around your business, the people in and around your business become FOR you.

The number one question customers are asking about a business is, 'Do they care about me?

I'm saying that if you want a dog to drop one bone, all you gotta do is give him a new one." "And ow am I supposed to do that?" "When I want to get reporters off my back, I call in an anonymous tip that Justin Bieber is getting a crew cut on the other side of town.

Friendship, in this community, was simple: it meant being there. Friendship necessitated no pride, no projection of having your shit together if you didn't, no passivity, no judgment—and especially no fronting, which had characterized so many relationships at Yale. Friendship here was the most dependable means by which they were going to get through their various lives.

In East Orange, initiations were completed by murdering someone, for no other reason than to prove to a tremendously cold, tremendously tight brotherhood that you possessed the hardness required to watch their backs.

One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest. — Mary Crowley

Your friends will stretch your vision … or choke your dreams. — Unknown

One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest. — Mary

One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest.

worship. The same is true for believers. Ever

no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

I know Mom's always saying friends come and go and family is forever, and maybe that's true. But your family isn't gonna be there when Meckley Mingo chases with his belt on your way home you from school.

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.

Character is more important than rank. Loyalty is more important than wealth. And what the people who truly know you think, is more important than your status in the eyes of strangers.

As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

Good teams have a compelling product vision that they pursue with a missionary-like passion. Bad teams are mercenaries.

There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man. Being a good man has to do with ideas about morality, ethics, religion, and behaving productively within a given civilizational structure. Being good at being a man is about showing other men that you are the kind of guy they'd want on their team if shit hits the fan.

I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.

Children love to fight and rarely think about death. They are the perfect soldiers.