Sunday 3 March 2013

Loyalty - Quotes

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. - Xun Zi

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land. - David Gemmell

If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life liveable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society. - Eric Felten

Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected? - Cassandra Clare

Loyalty is the most important thing you can give someone. Truth, trust friendship and very often love all depend on it. - Elvis Preseley

Loyalty isn’t grey. It’s black and white. You’re either loyal completely, or not loyal at all. - Sharnay

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. - Woodrow Wilson

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Never let your loyalty blind you to support the wrong doings of your leader. The leader’s job is to serve, and he is not more important than the people he is serving. - Unknown

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. - Woodrow Wilson

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately. - Andy Stanley

Loyalty that is bought with money, may be overcome by money. - Seneca

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty. - Cicero

Our earliest ancestors probably learned that loyalty was a valuable survival tool. In the jungle, the desert, or the open plains, loyalty to your tribe increased your chances of surviving harsh weather and an unreliable supply of food and water. - Dianne M. Durkin

Staying with someone that doesn't appreciate you isn't loyalty, it's stupidity. - Unknown

The lack of loyalty is one of the main causes of failure in all the spheres of life. - Napoleon Hill

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair. - Eric Felten

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. - Confucius

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. - Mario Puzo

The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you. - Larry McMurtry

True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honour, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life. - James Ellis

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own. - General Colin Powell

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. - Martin Luther

While loyal people often do sacrifice various interests, their time, and sometimes even their lives to serve some person, group, or cause, loyalty is not strictly altruistic. The loyal person's self-interest is tied up with that of the object of loyalty. - Robert W. Kolb

You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things. - Clarence Francis

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. - Jeffrey H. Gitomer

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