Quotes About Loyalty

Faithfulness is the antidote to bitterness and confusion.

Did you ever see me any way but with a smile on my face, ready to obey any orders that you had for me?

Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it.

which would you rather have—money to share with others, or loyal and honest friends?

The upshot is that if you identify self-interest with piety, honesty, country, parents and friends, then they are all secure.

But only if I identify with my will can I be someone's friend – or son, or father – in the true sense, because only then will my self-interest be served by remaining loyal, honest, patient, tolerant and supportive, and by maintaining my social relations.

the Oracle at Delphi—once threw a man out of the temple for abandoning his friend.

But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.

There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates. —General George S. Patton Jr.

The enemy—the indispensible devil of every mass movement—is omnipresent. He plots both outside and inside the ranks of the faithful. It is his voice that speaks through the mouth of the dissenter, and the deviationists are his stooges. If anything goes wrong within the movement, it is his doing. It is the sacred duty of the true believer to be suspicious. He must be constantly on the lookout for saboteurs, spies and traitors.

The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole -- the church, party, nation -- and not to his fellow true believer.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.     142

Of all the ways of filling one's life and of creating the illusion of purpose and worth, none seems so effective as the voluntary subjugation to a set of duties. The satisfaction derived from the daily performance of duties is so unalloyed that the inclination is strong to pile duty upon duty and revel in their performance.

beauty is the currency of betrayal!

Sometimes I want the friendship of a man but other times I only want his passion. Friendship can be false; passion never lies.

When a man really loves a woman, her secrets don't matter. He knows she's a liar and lives with it. His choice. In his silence he was the protector of her secrets. He maintained her lie out of loyalty, did that to prove his love. Loved her. Pi Suleman

A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free" phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times

We have found out… that we cannot trust some people who are nonconformists,' declared Ray Krock, one of the founders of Mcdonald's, angered by some of his franchisees. 'We will make conformists out of them in a hurry… The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

Indeed, market research has found that children often recognize a brand logo before they can recognize their own name.

the cost incurred by the agent to commit itself not to act against the principal's interest (the bonding cost), and (3) costs associated with an outcome that does not fully serve the interests of the principal

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth -- but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.

If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor -- as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.

Nothing will go wrong,Micheal said soothingly. Me and you? We've been through to much together. And your too unpleasant to die.Too bossy.God will keep you down here for a while until you learn your lesson and start learning to work and play well with others. Now your talking.Will you go with me a week from Friday when I get my biopsy? Wild horses and an evil head nurse with rubber gloves couldn't keep me away. Now your just being gross.