Quotes About Loyalty

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

Who lies for you will lie against you.

For cowards the rode of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

Prime would eventually justify its existence. The service turned customers into Amazon addicts who gorged on the almost instant gratification of having purchases reliably appear two days after they ordered them. Signing up for Amazon Prime, Jason Kilar said at the time, "was like going from a dial-up to a broadband Internet connection.

have realized about myself that I'm very motivated by people counting on me," he answered. "I like to be counted on."14

The membership fee is a onetime pain, but it's reinforced every time customers walk in and see forty-seven-inch televisions that are two hundred dollars less than anyplace else," Sinegal said. "It reinforces the value of the concept. Customers know they will find really cheap stuff at Costco.

Amazon customers who joined Prime doubled, on average, their spending on the site, according to a person familiar with the company's internal finances at the time. A Prime member was like a shopper who walked into a Costco warehouse for a case of beer and walked out with the beer plus an armful of DVDs, a nine-pound smoked ham, and a flat-screen television.

it was never about the seventy-nine dollars. it was really about changing people's mentality so they wouldn't shop anywhere else

when given the choice of obsessing over competitors or obsessing over customers, we always obsess over customers

Had Malcolm helped her father run from Archer Minor's family? I don't know. I suspected that he probably did. Either way, Aaron Kleiner was Malcolm's impetus for joining Fresh Start. His daughter would be someone he'd immediately care about and take under his wing. "Natalie

Your fellow soldiers had to know that you had their back. That was rule one, lesson one, and above all else. If the enemy goes after you, he goes after me too.

Clip came back into the fold. "We never found out," he chimed in. Clip hesitated a moment—to buy time or gather himself, Myron wasn't sure which. "I didn't mean to lie to you, Myron. I'm sorry. I was just trying to protect Greg.

Win was still in hiding. Myron had only gotten one message from him in the past six weeks—an e-mail with a short, simple message: You are in my heart. But Yu and Mee are in my pants. Win. Terese

I love you, Terese. I always will." Something changed. I could see it in her body language. A stiffening of the spine maybe. The best friend was slipping away. An adversary was coming to the surface.

Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics

There is no bond like blood, but there is no compound as volatile either.

She felt something deeper and richer with Dave, something driven by years and commitment, but maybe that was just fancy talk. That sort of electricity—had she ever felt it with her husband? Was it fair to even compare or think such things? Were such thoughts alone a betrayal? You

In this life you don't find too many people you can truly count on.

Also not surprising: He had fallen hard for Laszlo. He loved those walks, especially the one where he'd come through the door at the end of the day and Laszlo would greet him like a released POW on a tarmac—every day, without fail—and she'd drag him enthusiastically to the park as though she'd never been there before.

Myron remained unconvinced. "Even if I agreed to go along with this cockamamy scheme, what about nights? You expect me to watch her twenty-four hours a day?" "Of course not. Win will help you there." "Win has better things to do." "Tell that goy boy-toy it's for me," Norm said. "He loves me." A

Brutus was out of the car first. He opened the door for me. I thanked him. Brutus stuck with the stoic. He had the kind of cigar-store-Indian face you couldn't imagine—and probably wouldn't ever want to see—smiling. On

here, Rocco." "Just stay put," Rocco