Quotes About Loyalty

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

Infinite sadness is not to trust an old friend.

My only concern was whether or not I would let my men down once we entered combat. As a fighting company the men were primed and ready to go, and we fully intended that we were either going to win the ensuing battle or be killed.

Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans.

Comment prendre part à leurs jugements sans être infidèle à sa propre enfance3 ? » Chaque fois que je fus « infidèle » à mon enfance, en prenant part à des jugements dépréciatifs, une sourde mauvaise conscience ne manqua jamais, tôt ou tard, de se manifester en moi.

C'est bon d'avoir eu un copain. [...] On a toujours l'espoir qu'on restera copains, et que les moments passés ensemble ne seront pas effacés par de nouveaux souvenirs avec un autre.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.

The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack.

The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus.

discipleship can tolerate no conditions which might come between Jesus and our obedience to him.

Total war uses every conceivable means toward the end of national self-preservation. Everything is right and permitted that serves the cause of one's own people.

Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.

Had Levi stayed at his post, Jesus might have been his present help in trouble, but not the Lord of his whole life. In other words Levi would never have learnt to believe.

to finally take up his bourgeois responsibility as a German, he went to the spot where God had placed him through birth and talents. He never considered rejecting his position in life.

It was Bonhoeffer and his friends who proved by their resistance unto death that even in the age of the nation-state there are loyalties which transcend those to state and nation.

Who is this Judas? Who is the betrayer? Faced with this question, are we capable of more than asking with the disciples: "Surely not I, Lord?

Who is this Judas? Who is the betrayer? Faced with this question, are we capable of more than asking with the disciples: "Surely not I, Lord?"8 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sermon in Finkenwalde, 14 March 1937

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The intelligent man should see to it that his friends are immortal, his enemies mortal.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.