Quotes About Loyalty

In this way, I've learned that loving yourself requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world—our own self-worth.

Having an honest friend—one before whom you can dump all your heart's pockets and still feel that you are worth something—is a form of wealth that will buy you nothing but will give you everything. And mysteriously and rightly, to find such a friend, we must be such a friend.

Too many Western believers still unconsciously view the church like a cruise ship, with a large, well-trained staff looking after every need. The church was never intended to be a cruise ship! It was always meant to be more like a fishing boat, with everyone working, everyone helping to catch and clean fish, and everyone enjoying the satisfaction of knowing that they gave their all. In such a crew, there is loyalty and friendship centered around a common mission.

You is mine, Fishboy, you is all mine.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

There was real beauty to the old idea of living and dying where you were born.

Friendship is no doubt the highest form of love and also very difficult.

The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.

As well, there's the age-old syndrome common to fans of musicians with passionate and discerning cult followings. When the objects of adulation are crass enough to become popular, they quickly become a case of "used to be good.

Voltou noventa minutos mais tarde e conseguiu trabalhar com uma mão, fazendo muito capazmente mais de 150 jantares à la carte. Fiquei satisfeito com esta demonstração de lealdade. Trabalhar mesmo com dores e ferimentos conta muito para mim.

Todos nós estávamos a fazer inimigos entre muitos restauradores à medida que subornávamos, implorávamos, aliciávamos e induzíamos as pessoas a largar tudo e vir trabalhar para nós imediatamente.

A ideia era contratar para a minha equipa a maior quantidade possível de ajudantes leais – rapazes e raparigas que respondessem diretamente perante mim, em quem pudesse confiar para me protegerem a retaguarda – antes que o gerente da cozinha me impingisse os tipos dele, malta que não me diria nada se o meu cabelo estivesse a arder, e muito menos se havia alguém à minha espera com a faca pronta.

Já tinha visto gangsters antes, é claro, mas nunca tinha trabalhado numa casa que era completamente mafiosa, onde acabei por conhecer pessoalmente verdadeiros wise guys, cujos nomes saíam nos jornais. (…) Também não posso dizer que fosse um arranjo desagradável; pelo menos desta vez sabia que os meus cozinheiros iam aparecer para trabalhar todos os dias, porque se não fossem voltavam para a prisão.

Pela primeira vez vi como dois tipos amados, divertidos e famosos podem acabar por ser menos amados, não tão divertidos e muito menos famosos por tentar fazer nada mais do que aquilo que os amigos lhes disseram que eles eram bons a fazer. Tenho a certeza que se desfizeram amizades. Amigalhaços leais deixaram de aparecer, causando sentimentos reais de traição e amargura. No fim, acho eu, todos nós os deixámos mal.

A última coisa que o chefe quer num cozinheiro de linha é um inovador, alguém com ideias próprias que irá estragar as suas receitas ou as suas apresentações. Os chefes exigem cegueira, lealdade próxima do fanatismo, costas fortes e uma consistência de autómato para executar as tarefas dentro de uma situação de combate.

I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies.

Why are we fighting? We're fighting because we're soldiers. That's simple enough, isn't it? For what cause are we fighting? Simple again. We're fighting to protect our country, and, in a wider sense, the whole of the English-Speaking Union. From whom? No concern of ours. Where? Wherever we're sent. Now, Foxe, I trust all this is perfectly clear.

The intellectuals have never been on the side of the workers. Sometimes they've let on to be, but only for purposes of betrayal.

Speak up for me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of others.

I am everyone's friend,' I said. 'Except to my enemies.

If all you bastards are on the side of God then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.

The millicents (The police) now got down to making this long statement for me to sign, and I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.