Quotes about Loyalty

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

But when nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to their future usefulness, then an infinite withdrawal of value from the living present has begun. Nothing (and nobody) can then exist that is not theoretically replaceable by something (or somebody) more valuable. The country that we (or some of us) had thought to make our home becomes instead 'a nation rich in natural resources'; the good bounty of the land begins its mechanical metamorphosis into junk, garbage, silt, poison, and other forms of 'waste.' "The inevitable result of such an economy is that no farm or any other usable property can safely be regarded by anyone as a home, no home is ultimately worthy of our loyalty, nothing is ultimately worth doing, and no place or task or person is worth a lifetime's devotion. 'Waste,' in such an economy, must eventually include several categories of humans--the unborn, the old, 'disinvested' farmers, the unemployed, the 'unemployable.' Indeed, once our homeland, our source, is regarded as a resource, we are all sliding downward toward the ashheap or the dump.

Don`t let what other people think decide who you are.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.

He that is false to his first oath will be false to his second as well.

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

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

If your boss demands loyalty, give him integrity.
If your boss demands integrity, give him loyalty.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

. . . that nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Master, go one, and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate, and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. . . . who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make his love known?

O King, be loyal to the royal within you.

In thy face I see The map of honour, truth, and loyalty

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Just to be tender, just to be true, Just to be glad, the whole day through, Just to be merciful, just to be mild, Just to be gentle, and kind, and sweet, Just to be helpful with willing feet, Just to be cheerful when things go wrong, Just to drive sadness away with a song, Whether the hour is dark or bright; Just to be loyal to God and right, Just to believe that God knows best, Just in his promises ever to rest- Just to let love be our daily key, That is God's will for you and me.

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.

"If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.

21. An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.