Quotes About Loyalty

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

Be true to your word and your work and your friend...

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

For a nice guy, the noblest virtues are camaraderie, dependability, and unswerving loyalty.

Usually it is not until there is evidence that the employee [who has changed jobs] has not lived up to his contract, expressed or implied, to maintain secrecy, that the former employer can take action. In the law of torts there is the maxim: Every dog has one free bite. A dog cannot be presumed to be vicious until he has proved that he is by biting someone. As with a dog, the former employer may have to wait for a former employee to commit some overt act before he can act.

The true test of a man's character is not how he treats his friends, but how he treats his enemies.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

If you're going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that. What is the West but a gigantic supermarket? And who really wants to die for a supermarket?

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.

Without this type of intimacy, you may be tempted to look elsewhere for friendship.

Many rebel soldiers that night would sleep on their muskets and question the value of a victory that had cost them Stonewall Jackson.

Do you understand the lesson of the sword and the charge I have laid on you?" "Yes, mother. Kill heretics, don't sleep around, obey the king. But… we don't have kings in America, and I think being a heretic is protected by the First Amendment.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

for in our own day we see many who are stupid enough to be so overcome by the mere title of "the church," that they take sides with the pope, and would be damned forever rather than raise a finger against his authority.

It is not for us to ask the Lord to discharge us from his army, no matter what fighting we have done. For Christ will have no discharged soldiers, except those who have overcome death itself. . . .

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.

looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

And this is the evidence of faith that we never allow ourselves to be torn away from Christ and the promises we have in him. The

there is no real shortcut to gaining someone's trust,

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.