Loyalty Quotes

• You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

  

  Clarence Francis
  • Souls
  • Enthusiasm
  • Devotion

• The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Decision

• Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Loyalty

• Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Loyalty

• 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
  • Heart
  • Poverty
  • Kindness

• I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Lying

• Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Teaching
  • Pope
  • Commands

• I feel like loyalty is such a rare quality in this world, particularly the entertainment world.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • World
  • Quality
  • Loyalty

• Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I was stunned: Tom’s loyalty to the dead was keeping him from living his own life, just as his father’s devotion to his friends had kept him from living.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Loyalty
  • Devotion

• There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent.

  

  George S. Patton
  • Loyalty
  • Top
  • Prevalent

• ... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal.

  

  Erich Raeder
  • Character
  • Training
  • Military

• Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Control
  • Government
  • Reincarnation

• He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Beautiful
  • Loyalty
  • Judgement

• The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored; Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Pride
  • Lord
  • Soldier

• 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
  • Loyalty
  • Standing

• I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

  

  Summer Altice
  • People
  • Respect
  • Qualities

• Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Body

• 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
  • Democracy
  • Person
  • Days

• Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Fear
  • Religious
  • Ambition

• People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • People
  • Proud
  • Armaments

• Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

  

  Ada Velez
  • Truth
  • Loyalty
  • Pledge

• Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Time
  • Loyalty
  • Victories

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