Quotes About Loyalty

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

A man must love his bear.

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him?' 'Yeah. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no matter what he was.

But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn't join it. I'm not a joiner. I never found a club or clan or idea that was more important to me than the men and women who believed in it. And

Loyalty is something you need for things you don't love enough. When you love enough, loyalty isn't even a question.

He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.

a king is a bad enemy, a worse friend, and a fatal family relation.

Lin, a man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. Then he has to earn her respect. Then he has to cherish her trust. And then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about.

we spoke to none but the few we trusted with our wounded lives.

The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

But faith, unlike hope, can die. And when faith dies, the two friends that always die with it are constancy and commitment.

Prabaker had just then decided to like me, and for him that meant he was bound to a scrupulous and literal honesty in everything he said or did. It was at once his most endearing and most irritating quality, that he always told me the whole of the truth.

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life. Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

There is no man, and no place, without war,' he replied, and it struck me that it was the most profound thing he'd ever said to me. 'The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

There is no man, and no place, without war,' he replied, and it struck me that it was the most profound thing he'd ever said to me. 'The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.' 'I … I hope there's more to it than that, brother. But, shit, maybe you're right.

Lin, ?ovek mora da na?e dobru ženu i kad je na?e mora da osvoji njenu ljubav. Onda mora da zaradi njeno poštovanje. Onda mora da ?uva njeno poverenje. I onda mora, ono, da nastavi to da radi dok je živ. DOk oboje ne umru. U tome je cela suština. To je najvažnije na svetu. To je muškarac. Muškarac je stvarno muškarac kad osvoji ljubav dobre žene, zaradi neno poštovanje i zadrži njeno poverenje. Dok to nisi u stanju da uradiš, nisi muškarac.

never found a club or clan or idea that was more important to me than the men and women who believed in it.

But I was alone, and for two reasons: The mafia was theirs, not mine. For them, the organisation always came first. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn't join it. I'm not a joiner. I never found a club or clan or idea that was more important to me than the men and women who believed in it.

the promise to "forsake all others" includes all those entanglements, friendships, family-of-origin commitments, career opportunities, and community involvements that do not serve to increase either the physical and mental health of each spouse or the intimacy of the marriage.

St. Louis is still a special place for me. I still have my home there. I live there in the offseason. I enjoyed playing in front of 40,000 people every day. I tried to do my best to help the organization win. I had success there. We won two World Series. We went to three. That's something you can't take from me.

I wasn't the guy running out to the Viper Room or comedy clubs until three in the morning. I was the guy running back to watch the Mets win the World Series in 1986.