Ge Hong Quotes

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

Ge Hong

• Loyalty
• Immortals
• Peacefulness

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• This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Loyalty
  • Seems
  • Gone

• 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
  • Up
  • World
  • Culture

• Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Party
  • Justice
  • Loyalty

• Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Work
  • Character
  • Loyalty

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Light
  • Day
  • Loyalty

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

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Loyalty
  • Efficiency
  • Fifty

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Community
  • Loyalty

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Job
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Good
  • Love
  • Strong

• 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 Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• For showing loyalty in the midst of prosperity calls for no particular admiration, but always, if men show themselves steadfast when friends have fallen upon misfortunes, this is remembered for all times.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Loyalty

• Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty. Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth? A. I am.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Truth
  • Loyalty

• I'm most passionate about personalization. I firmly believe that personalized experiences with brands will most drive loyalty and relevance for customers in the future.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Loyalty

• Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Bad
  • Faith
  • Friendship

• I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.

  

  James Caan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Kids

• My loyalty is to myself, actually. I don't know if it's to my readers.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Loyalty

• The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

  

  Jan Peter Balkenende
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.

  

  Matthew Quick
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do - for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Friends
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O'Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn't.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Proud
  • Unique
  • Management

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

  

  Ge Hong
  • Loyalty
  • Immortals
  • Peacefulness