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Jan

Quotations. On Loyalty


On Loyalty.
The 78th in a series of collections of useable quotations to make you look really smart in your next presentation or report.   

 

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

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

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

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
Joyce Maynard

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
Jesse Ventura

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Isabel Allende

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
Bainbridge Colby

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
Lynn Swann

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
Elton John

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Bainbridge Colby

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. Humphrey

As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities.
Romeo LeBlanc

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
Pierre Salinger

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.
Jonathan Brown

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
John McCarthy


Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
Edwin Louis Cole

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
Christopher Dawson

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie de France

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
Graham Greene

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
Jesse Ventura

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.
Prescott Bush

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

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
George Gaylord Simpson

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
Joe Eszterhas

I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
Edgar Winter

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
Ernie Banks

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
Floyd Abrams

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Jack Steinberger

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.
Kenneth Starr

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Arthur Capper

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Samuel Goldwyn

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Dick Van Patten

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.
William Wyler

 

 

  
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