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Quotes About Loyalty

When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry. Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every day.
~ Brennan Manning
Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him his money back, pushed him gently from the room, and so made a devoted slave of Tom Simson.
~ Bret Harte
So I had him go to work, because it occurred to me that even when your wife leaves you, you still have to show up for work.
~ Bret Lott
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."-Helen Keller Quote Read: 6/22/18
~ Helen Keller
Britain and our friends, by allowing Colonel Bolt's records to have a grave question mark against your name, would you let that question mark still remain?" Sheila looked puzzled. She was
~ Helen MacInnes
Whether you come in first or last, you're still my horse!
~ Hendrie Weisinger
Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.
~ Henning Mankell
Vorremmo che tutto potesse ripetersi, potesse tornare ad essere precisamente come era disse Karin. Ma invecchiare significa anche imparare a difendersi dal sentimentalismo. L'amicizia deve essere messa alla prova e rinnovarsi. Forse i vecchi amori non cambiano mai. Ma l'amicizia sì.
~ Henning Mankell
That would never have worked. You can't be a hired hand for your own father. Especially when he makes all the decisions, and is always right.
~ Henning Mankell
Our colleagues don't sound happy," Björk said with concern. "It's never popular to bring in someone from your own force. It's going to be a dismal winter because of this.
~ Henning Mankell
After all, the only thing we have left is friends. You can say that they are the last fortress to be defended.
~ Henning Mankell
Are we really servants when we can become masters again once we think we have done our part or made our contribution? Are we really servants when we can say when, where, and how long we will give of our time and energy? Is service in a far country really an expression of servanthood when we keep enough money in the bank to fly home at any moment?
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim
~ Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
~ Henry Adams
Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend.
~ Henry B. Adams
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But never mind; faint heart never won true Friend. O Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and you're friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau