Being Faithful Quotes

• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Husband, Wife, Romance

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• It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Funny, Faith, Sexy

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• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  Adam Clarke

  Heart, Faithful Servants, Honor

  Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.5

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• Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

  Erich Fromm

  Faith, Confidence, Able

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.206, Routledge

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• A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
  finds authority by being under authority
  finds direction by laying down his plans
  finds vision by seeing the needs of others
  finds credibility by being an example
  finds loyalty by expressing compassion
  finds honor by being faithful
  finds greatness by being a servant

  Roy Lessin

  Loyalty, Godly, Compassion

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• By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Faithful, Literature

  "Profiles in Courageous Manhood".

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• It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

  Federico Fellini

  Faithful, Easier, Restaurants

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

  Mason Cooley

  Ghetto, Roots, Faithful

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• Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

  John W. Gardner

  Faithful, Problem, Values

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Eye, Men, Faithful

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Real, Moving

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• It is better to be faithful than famous.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Army, Faithful

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Religious, Faithful, Littles

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• Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

  Ashley Judd

  Believe, Condom Use, Aids Epidemic

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• Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

  Maria Monk

  Faithful, Impossible, Sin

  Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.26

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• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Lying

  "An Essential Part of Being'" by Brian Weatherley, November 12, 2010.

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• He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
  
  
  
  Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

  Andre Gide

  Success, Faithful, Indispensable

  "The Fruits of the Earth". Book by André Gide, 1897.

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• When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Faithful, His Love

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• What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.192, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

  Dorothy Day

  Success, Effectiveness, Worry

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• At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophical

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.47, Penguin

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