Loyalty Quotes - Page 11

• A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

  Joyce Maynard

  Persons, Deserve

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• We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

  Mario Puzo

  Commitment, Honor, Ifs

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• Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family.

  Mira Grant

  Blood, Water, Care

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• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Opportunity, Culture, World

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• A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.

  Matthew Reilly

  Memories, True Friend, Fighting

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• Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.

  Colin Powell

  Integrity, Ego, Energy

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• There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have suspected. But there were others who had been barely acquaintances of mine whose loyalty and efforts on my behalf made me realize that not everyone was as inherently rotten as I'd previously believed. So it caused a violent split in my view of humanity - people turned out to be far worse and far better than I'd ever dreamed possible.

  Jim Goad

  Views, People, Effort

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fall, Two, Achievement

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

  Robert Runcie

  Spring, War, Remembrance

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• Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

  Richard Wright

  Devotion, Love Grows, Shared Experiences

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.368, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

  George William Curtis

  Country, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.

  J. K. Rowling

  Understanding, Tolerance, Limitless

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• Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

  Honore de Balzac

  Winning, Victory, Needs

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• Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

  Janet Morris

  Discipline, Risk, Friendly

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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• Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Kindness, Army

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• the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

  Vicki Baum

  Giving Up, Food, Patriotic

  Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”

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• People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

  Kinky Friedman

  Dog, Kindness, Cat

  Kinky Friedman (2011). “Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

  Jimmy Carter

  Tired, Night, Thinking

  Jimmy Carter, Bill Adler (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter”, Book Sales

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• It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Law, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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• Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.

  Eric Church

  Country, Fans, Way

  "Eric Church Interview: Star Talks Loyalty Of Country Fans, Next Album + More At Lollapalooza". Interview with Dave Kim, tasteofcountry.com. August 14, 2013.

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• Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.

  Ge Hong

  Fundamentals, Trustworthiness, Obedience

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• Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

  A. J. McLean

  Summer, Honesty, Sunshine

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• The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

  Chris Matthews

  Real, Differences, Barack

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• Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.

  Russell Banks

  People, Kicks, Seems

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• I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Patriotic, Numbers

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