Top 100 Quotes About Loyalty
#1. It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.
Timothy B. Tyson
#2. When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.
Scott McClellan
#3. Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?
Jonah Goldberg
#4. Every noble house had its words. Family mottoes, touchstones, prayers of sorts, they boasted of honor and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage. All but the Starks. Winter is coming, said the Stark words.
George R R Martin
#5. A true friend
repays loyalty with loyalty,
honesty with honesty
and favours with favours.
Theodore Volgoff
#7. Thus did I begin to see, or thought I began to see, how the British Conservatives kept the fierce, irrational loyalty of those whom they exploited.
Christopher Hitchens
#8. Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters.
Paul Bloom
#9. No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
Anthony Trollope
#10. ] I'm loyal to my thoughts, to my friends. This is what I really like the best. Loyalty. Sounds goody-goody. Maybe that's not the one you wanted.
Manolo Blahnik
#11. We have loyalty, fidelity, honor
All three are overrated. The only chance you have to demonstrate any of them is to deny yourself something or someone you desire.
Kresley Cole
#13. A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.
Quintus Ennius
#14. All blood does is make you related. But loyalty? It's loyalty that makes you Family.
Chris Diaz
#15. I felt bolstered by their friendship. By their loyalty. By the idea that I had these amazing friends, these members of my tribe, these gladiators at my back.
Shonda Rhimes
#17. I reserve my loyalty for those who do not make me question theirs.
Unknown
#18. I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
George Strait
#19. Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
#20. It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.
Chris Christie
#21. They will come a time when Satan will throw a veil over the earth...and convince us that he does not exist. Look at our politics and degradation of values and loyalty and tell me that day is not today.
James Morris Robinson
#22. What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.
Stanley Bing
#23. Peer into your loving dog's eyes and you will have seen true trust and loyalty .
Jeff Tikari
#24. Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
Mother Teresa
#25. Only weak ask for loyalty; Mighty command it.
Anupam Sinha
#26. The secret was loyalty to the White House and to the Presidency, rather than to whoever happens to be occupying the office for four years, or eight.
J.B. West
#27. Love requires commitment, flexibility, transparency and loyalty. Happy Valentines Day 2017.
Euginia Herlihy
#28. I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype. But the Tris who's trying as hard as she can to destroy herself ... I can't love her.
Anonymous
#29. A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.
Harold Laski
#30. Love is loyalty and without love then there are no trusts.
Boss
#31. One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.
T.F. Hodge
#32. Loyalty, when divided, is sharper than a blade and cuts both ways.
Jeff Wheeler
#33. If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth
any man of integrity.
Ayn Rand
#34. You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II
#35. Greed, apathy, hubris - even loyalty - all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word.
Greg Iles
#36. Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
William Shakespeare
#37. Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.
Joseph Stalin
#38. Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that because of what he did, I can now concentrate on different issues, different from what he concentrated on.
Juan Manuel Santos
#40. Remember? I'm the one who keeps you safe. I'm the one that would die for you and all that? why, want me to prove my loyalty?
Rachel Van Dyken
#41. She was as beautiful as the Madonna statue they kept in the church. Her beauty went so much deeper than her face or body; it was a manifestation of her innocence, the sweetness she showed everyone, the steadfast loyalty that she gave to others even though it had never been given to her.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#43. Mostly he misses Jutta: her loyalty, her obstinacy, the way she always seems to recognize what is right. Though in Werner's weaker moments, he resents those same qualities in his sister. Perhaps she's the impurity in him, the static in his signal that the bullies can sense.
Anthony Doerr
#44. My loyalty lies with you, Princess," Tove smiled. "I trust you, and other Trylle will learn to trust you, once they see what you can do.
Amanda Hocking
#45. A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
A.O. Scott
#46. I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
David Gemmell
#47. There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Marie De France
#48. 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
#49. Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.
Cheech Marin
#50. Jehovah had not simply been testing Abraham, but had communicated in the only language of loyalty, obedience, sacrifice, and command that humankind could understand at that point in the relationship.
Dan Simmons
#51. Loyalty is something you need for things you don't love enough. When you love enough, loyalty isn't even a question.
Gregory David Roberts
#52. That's not necessary. I'm doing what any good friend would do, out of loyalty and Lunar patriotism and--"
"I'll buy you a new pair of shoes."
"Sold.
Marissa Meyer
#53. My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.
Alice Hoffman
#54. There is nothing more terrible than a spurned faery queen, particularly if you defy her a second time. I escaped the Winter Court with my life intact, but just barely, and I won't be returning anytime soon. My loyalty - and my heart - belongs to another queen now.
Julie Kagawa
#56. It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
Jennifer Haigh
#57. Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .
Eric Hoffer
#58. What kind of person does it make me if I accept words I know are lies? Because I know they are. He's absolutely honest with me about everything but loyalty.
Mary Elizabeth
#59. Generous leaders have faith in others to succeed. In turn, they receive tenfold loyalty, commitment, and a positive outcome.
Farshad Asl
#60. I understood that Valek's loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine.
Maria V. Snyder
#61. It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
Gordon W. Allport
#62. A man is not defined by one allegiance alone... If he were, then reason would have no value, nor would loyalty have meaning.
Krishna Udayasankar
#63. I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.
Ken Starr
#64. Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.
Charles Kingsley
#65. The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.
Michael Josephson
#66. Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are.
Jack Kelly
#67. It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long as your friends surround you with love, loyalty, respect and positivity.
Demi Lovato
#68. Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.
Qiu Miaojin
#69. But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance:
J.K. Rowling
#70. The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.
Jolene Blalock
#71. With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.
Brian Spellman
#72. I am a great believer in loyalty, trust and integrity. Gary made a commitment to this club, the supporters and myself and I fully expect him to homour that commitment.
Milan Mandaric
#73. Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour, Benevolence
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#74. 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
#75. On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.
Nel Noddings
#76. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
William E. Gladstone
#77. Truth must be stalwart, Loyalty absolute, Generosity unstinting, while Appearance and Convention were children of the giant Hyprocrisy and must be put to flight.
Marilynne Robinson
#78. Loyalty's a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.
Joe Abercrombie
#79. We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny ... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
E.B. White
#80. In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. But in practice, neither believed in friendship or loyalty. They believed in passion, they believed in a hybrid form of social or public happiness (both voted Socialist, albeit with the occasional abstention), they believed in the possibility of self-realization.
Roberto Bolano
#83. 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
#85. Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.
Ron Kaufman
#86. Being part of a fraternity has given me the foundation for everything I do in my career from the loyalty to the determination; it laid the foundation for everything I've been able to enjoy. I'm heavily involved with Omega Psi Phi.
Terrence J
#87. Marla had always been better at tearing things apart, at least in a physical level (though she liked to think she was good at building more theoretical things, like the complex structure of loyalty, fear, and obligation that kept things running back home).
Tim Pratt
#88. A classic book is a book which generations of men, driven by various reasons, read with that same initial fervor and that same mysterious loyalty.
Jorge Luis Borges
#89. Equal laws protecting equal rights ... the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.
James Madison
#90. As a fan of the books, I feel fortunate to be part of 'The Hunger Games' family. It was an amazing experience; I am proud of the film and my performance. I want to thank all of my fans and the entire 'Hunger Games' community for their support and loyalty.
Amandla Stenberg
#91. The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.
Jeff Sessions
#92. PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten.
Steve Prefontaine
#93. He was fighting hard to draw a line where politics could stop, where family loyalty could stop and his own personal morality and his own life could begin. It was hard to find that place
Bob Woodward
#94. Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.
David A. Bednar
#95. The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
#96. Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.
Percy Dearmer
#97. It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country.
Hermann Hesse
#98. You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.
Donald T. Regan
#99. I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities - wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty - but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness.
Pat Derby
#100. Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.
Murphy J. Foster Jr.
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