Quotes About Loyalty

ignored Truslow, trusting instead in the Colonel's largesse.

I had broken three Saxon shield-walls and buried Hywelbane to her hilt in my country's enemies before I had been elected to Mithras's service, but all Lancelot had ever done was boast and posture.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons

The religious element in patriotism is reinforced by education, especially by a knowledge of the history and literature of one's own country, provided it is not accompanied by much knowledge of the history and literature of other countries.

Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.

The conception of duty has been a means used by the holders of power to induce others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their own.

If you wish a man to commit some abominable crime, from which he would naturally recoil in horror, you first teach him loyalty to a gang of arch-criminals, and then make his crime appear to him as exemplifying the virtue of loyalty.

Elizabeth Tudor weakly squeezed Valentina's fingers. She said, "Tell that woman I shall be waiting for her." Then she closed her eyes and slept again.

if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Do you not know that if you offer yourself to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey? Romans 6:16

How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If Yahweh is God, follow Him. But if Baal, follow him. 1 Kings 18:21

Lord, our God, other lords than You have ruled over us, but we remember Your name alone. Isaiah 26:13

Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but who can find a trustworthy man? Proverbs 20:6

God] keeps His gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands. Deuteronomy 7:9

Mom did what many women of her era did. She stayed, despite a dozen valid reasons to go. She considered dying, but never leaving.

Somehow in the mess of it, Jesus stayed. He kept his commitment to me when I was at a loss to consistently keep what seemed a single commitment to him.

obedience comes from faith.

This is love: that we walk according to His commands. 2 John 6

We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them. Joshua 9:19

The LORD said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped… . But everyone else is to go home." Judges 7:7

Bow down to him, for he is your lord. Psalm 45:11

Uncommon friends can speak their minds without fear. Imagine the tone David probably used with Jonathan when he asked, "What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to take my life?" (v. 1).