Quotes About Loyalty

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

In countries vulnerable for brain drain, loyalty or patriotism is often the only thing that can make people stay or draw them back

The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Una dintre funcÈ›iile principale ale unui prienten este s? sufere(într-o form? mai blând?, simbolic?) pedepsele pe care am dori s? le aplic?m duÈ™manilor noÈ™tri, dar nu izbutim.

Una de las principales funciones de nuestros amigos estriba en sufrir (en formas más suaves y simbólicas) los castigos que querríamos infligir, y no podemos, a nuestros enemigos.

the truth of all that the Savage now said about the worthlessness of friends who could be turned upon so slight a provocation into persecuting enemies.

Una de las principales funciones de un amigo es el sufrir (en forma más suave y simbólica) los castigos que queremos, y no podemos infligir a nuestros enemigos.

Una de las principales funciones de nuestros amigos estriba en sufrir (aunque de una forma simbólica) los castigos que nos gustaría infligir, y no podemos, a nuestros enemigos.

Jedna od glavnih funkcija prijatelja je da izdrži (u blažem i simboli?nom obliku) kazne koje bismo želeli, ali ne možemo da izvršimo nad našim neprijateljima.

the worthlessness of friends who could be turned upon so slight a provocation into persecuting enemies.

In the last analysis the great patriots were those who identified personal ambition with the welfare of their country. The traitor, as often as not, was one who, failing to recognize where the true interests of his country lay, identified his personal ambition with the less noble aspirations of his people.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

doubt is a good servant but a bad master; a perfect mistress, but a nagging wife.

He knew that he was hated, abhorred by the mass of the people, and this knowledge made him react against the external world, and at the same time increased the satisfaction and pleasure he found in the servility, solicitude, and adulation of his dependents, who had consolidated his interests and prosperity and extended to the utmost a sovereignty quite unsupported by legality and constitution.

And never believe those who say bad things about animals.

Lui diceva: "Non sei fregato veramente finché hai da parte una buona storia, e qualcuno a cui raccontarla".

Solo a Hélène non riusciva a mentire. -è proprio necessario che parta, Baldabiou? -No. -E allora perché? -Io non posso fermarlo. E se lui vuole andare laggiù, posso solo dargli una ragione in più per tornare.

You can't be nobody's frien' an' slave both. How come, Pappy? 'Cause friend's don't own one 'nother.

I don't love nothing or nobody like I love this city, ya heard me?

People usually define family by blood ties but I don't see it that way. I think family are the people you can rely on, the people you know who will back you up when you need it. People who can rely on you.

Playboy stretched his arm, patting Carlos on the back. Well, you know what they say: If you love someone, let'em go. If they don't come back, hunt'em down and kill'em!

He took with him into private life his enemies and his wounds, the only profits that generally accrue to honest people who are guilty of having worked for their country rather than for themselves.

In businesses, sir, there are no friends, only associates.