Loyalty Quotes - Page 26

• There's nothing cheap about loyalty.

  Ryan Bingham

  Up In The Air, Inspiring Business

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• Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Country, Time, Patriotic

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• He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.

  Thomas Gore

  Dog, Attributes

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• He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

  Sam Houston

  Dog, Luck, Characteristics

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Struggle, Sacrifice

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

  Susan Estrich

  Judgment, Good Judgment, Standing

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

  Jack Steinberger

  Years, Berkeley, Oath

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• The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

  Adam Gopnik

  Past, Desire, Goes On

  "Blows Against the Empire" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2007.

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• The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.

  Arthur Melvin Okun

  Wisdom, Strong, Effort

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• A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
  finds authority by being under authority
  finds direction by laying down his plans
  finds vision by seeing the needs of others
  finds credibility by being an example
  finds loyalty by expressing compassion
  finds honor by being faithful
  finds greatness by being a servant

  Roy Lessin

  Godly, Compassion, Greatness

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• The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.

  Monica Raymund

  Drama, Commitment, Support

  "Making 'A Better Holiday'" by Monica Raymund, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

  A. O. Scott

  Honesty, Drama, Ambition

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• Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in a hundred ways what your life is for. Say you ever and only, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O my God." Out of that dutiful root grows the beautiful life, the life radically and radiantly true to God--the only life that can be lived in both worlds.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Beautiful, Roots, Feelings

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Horse, Integrity, Passion

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• When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Mistake, Writing, Achievement

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• If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Husband, Believe, Men

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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• Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

  James Russell Lowell

  Bravery, May, Way

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Country, Religious, Business

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Appreciation, Heart, Men

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• Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

  Charles Kingsley

  Soul, Purpose, Mines

  Charles Kingsley (1855). “Westward ho!: The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth”, p.180

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• In the US everybody is about what's new and what's next and they don't really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe - if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.

  Rob Zombie

  Real, Europe, Matter

  Source: onstagereview.com

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• Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Boxing, Violence

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• 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

  Friends, True Friend, Heart

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• Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we have in our culture. When we play, we give a gift of joy to another. Happy and joyous family times are a unifying force. They increase closeness and positive feelings. They increase loyalty to the family team. Everyone relaxes and feels more alive. Love just happens when you're having fun together!

  Louise Hart

  Family, Fun, Team

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• I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Two, Offering

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