Quotes About Loyalty

What proof could there be, after all? A birthmark on Luthar's arse in the shape of a crown? Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.

Everyone says you're the most untrustworthy bitch in the whole North.' 'No one should know better than you what the things everyone says are worth. Truth is, I only care about keeping my word to folk I like. I seem untrustworthy because there are only seven of those outside the hills.' She made a fist of her tattooed hand, trembling tight. 'To those seven, I am a rock.

I've always been my own worst enemy," he muttered. "Stick with me, then." Her smile had widened some. "You'll soon have worse.

Where do we find allies?' Father Yarvi smiled. 'Among our enemies, where else?

Pick your enemies more carefully than your friends," Nothing was muttering at the flames. "They will be with you longer.

So it always is with mercenaries. Easily hired, even more easily discharged and never missed once they are gone.' Friendly

Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The

How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!

Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to.' Her

The love of the people is a ruler's surest shield against danger.

Loyalty on a mercenary is like armour on a swimmer.

Northmen kept him close. He liked to think he was looked on as some noble mixture of bodyguard, advisor and mentor. In truth, the role probably tended more towards jester. But what can you do but play the role you're given?

And they'll follow you?' asked one of Forest's aides. 'They'll follow anyone who feeds them,' said Jurand. 'Especially if he points them in the direction of home.

I never did a thing to deserve loyalty like that.' 'Sometimes loyalty's an excuse for something else.

Perhaps for some men obedience became a habit they could not question. Or perhaps they came to define themselves by their service to a master, and chose to take the short step into death as part of something great, rather than walk the long, hard road of life in insignificance.

You must execute with consistency. Do that, and you become magnetic.

Pay attention to customers, and you will win them and keep them.

Rule 1: Know more about the customer than anyone else. Rule 2: Get closer to the customer than anyone else. Rule 3: Emotionally connect with the customer better than anyone else.

How do you choose between your kids and your parents? I feel like we're all just a bunch of vikings, moving around so we can pillage and burn, make a better living. Some choose their kids, some their parents, and some both. Some people just choose themselves

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

I never found anybody else and I don't want anybody else. I don't care whether you're ninety years old or thirty. If I can't be your lover, I'll be your nurse.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.