Fidelity Quotes - Page 4

• Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hero, Tree, Saint

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

  Carl Jung

  Law, Faces

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• Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

  Laozi

  Honesty, Confusion, Taoism

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• The Summer King stroked her cheek with his thumb. “Can you offer me your fidelity? Your heart and your body and your companionship for eternity? Do you want my fidelity? Either love me or kiss me goodbye, my Summer Queen.

  Melissa Marr

  Summer, Goodbye, Kings

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• Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Men, Opposites

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.323

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• If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone's capacity in both its active and passive exercise.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Exercise, Reality, God's Plan

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• If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

  Sophie Swetchine

  God, Looks, Earth

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• Fidelity is for phonographs

  Saul Bellow

  Phonograph

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

  Doris Lessing

  Integrity, Chastity, Like Me

  Doris May Lessing (1981). “The Golden Notebook”, Bantam

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• Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Mother, Son, Men

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part IV, Book VI, Chapter XII. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 665, 1802.

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• This position will not be disputed so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct, or that the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty. Even the love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds... would on the contrary deter him from the undertaking, when he foresaw that he must quit the scene before he could accomplish the work.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Long, Mind

  "The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States".

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• Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Daring, Being True, Wells

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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• Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really interesting question. Personally, I don't think digital sounds good, but that's just my own feeling.

  John Vanderslice

  Thinking, Interesting, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Running, Long

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• Our society is so much about fidelity being this thing that's sacred, and people are miserable. They're suicidal. It brings more depression than anything else on earth, probably. Sorry to say that, guys.

  Julie Delpy

  Sorry, Suicidal, People

  "The Before Midnight Team: Reunion of the Year 2013". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. December 5, 2013.

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• I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

  Ron Dellums

  Fighting, Two, Principles

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• The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

  John Stuart Mill

  Successful, Two, Enterprise

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.184

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• Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Men, Self, Tears

  "That We May Touch Heaven". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1990.

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• We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

  Horace Bushnell

  Fashion, Jesus, Feet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388, 1895.

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• How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.

  Pope Francis

  Exercise, Doe, Roles

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• The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.

  Fred Brooks

  Believe, Essence, Design

  "No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". Paper by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Truth, Honesty

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

  Emily Giffin

  Love, Passion, Years

  "Thoughtful Emily Giffin Quotes You'll Want to Bookmark and Read Again and Again". www.popsugar.com. July 04, 2016.

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• There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

  George Pell

  People, Church, Vitality

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

  August Sander

  Photography, Mean, Projects

  August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”

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