Quotes on “Loyalty”

Loyalty

…begins by understanding to whom and to what I owe my allegiance or faithfulness, and then acts to remain faithful and true, firm in all of my affections and promises.

“Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon .”
			Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

“Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you’re getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.”
			Charles “Tremendous” Jones American Motivational Speaker, Author

“The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
			Michael Jordan 1963- American Basketball Player, Actor                                                                  m

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
			Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

“A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.”
			Proverb

“It is better to be faithful than famous.”
			Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

“Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”
			Josiah Royce 1855-1916, American Philosopher

“My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.”
			Carl Schurz 1829-1906, German-born American Senator

“Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.”
			William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”
			Woodrow T. Wilson 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

“I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.”
			Samuel Goldwyn 1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM

“Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.”
			Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians  and Judaism

“Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise .”
			Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher