Loyalty Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Xunzi

  Faith, Hate, Giving

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• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Heart, Enemy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

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• If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Heaven, Would Be

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• True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wall, True Friend, Fall

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• Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

  Mark McKinnon

  Emotional, Choices, Matter

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• Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Earth, Speak

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

  James Cook

  Betrayal, Self, Interest

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• You can buy a man's time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm... you cannot buy loyalty... you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, mind or souls. You must earn these.

  Clarence Francis

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Heart

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• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  Haniel Long

  Family, Our Love, Criminal Mind

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

  John Barth

  Men, Allegiance, Objects

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• Talk to people in their own language.
  If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking."
  And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

  Lee Iacocca

  Thinking, People, Language

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• No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that gives him more benefits than any other system yet devised by man. Loyalty leaves room to change the system when need be, but only under the ground rules by which we Americans live.

  John A. Hannah

  Change, Men, Names

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• The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

  George Hewitt Myers

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Decision, Tears

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• A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Real, Adversity, Visits You

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• When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

  John Lyly

  Adversity, Storm, Flow

  John Lyly, David Bevington (1997). “Endymion”, p.137, Manchester University Press

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• Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.

  Lucy Larcom

  Sweet, Growing Up, Orange Trees

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• Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Educational, Talking

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• Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Absolutes

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• And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

  Pete Wentz

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

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• My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Betrayal, Opposites, Soul

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

  Larry Munson

  Envy, Georgia, Tradition

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• For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support.

  Lierre Keith

  Jobs, Support, Political

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.212, Seven Stories Press

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• Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to.

  Trent Shelton

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Sep 30, 2013

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• Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

  Roy Hattersley

  Heart, Blue, White

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