Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Swann

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Jimmy Carter

I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

John C. Maxwell

Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.

John C. Maxwell

The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

Henrik Lundqvist

I don't shop by brand loyalty at all. I'm just drawn to what I like when I shop.

Heinrich Himmler

My honor is my loyalty.

Henry Jenkins

If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then new consumers are migratory, showing a declining loyalty to networks or media. If old consumers were isolated individuals, then new consumers are more socially connected. If the work of media consumers was once silent and invisible, then new consumers are now noisy and public.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

John le Carre

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

Jim Ryun

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

There might be a short-term revenue hit, but this can be a very powerful loyalty tool, which is especially important now because we're in a market share game.

Carl Sagan

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Charlie Munger

There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full of people who have co-owned shares with the managers for many decades, and in many cases they co-invested when everyone was young and obscure. Also when you come back to a place like that you are celebrating old loyalties, and of course the basic idea behind so much of Berkshire is the old fashioned idea that the best way to get loyalty is to deserve loyalty.

Bob Schaffer

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

William Shakespeare

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.

Arthur Koestler

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

Calvin Coolidge

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

Bryant H. McGill

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Alain de Botton

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

Charles Kingsley

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

Charlene Li

Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.

Brian Cowen

I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on that journey since my first election 25 years ago: Loyalty to the party, service to our country and a determination to always do my best for the people. They are principles that still guide me.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.

Aristotle

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Ben Hecht

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

David Bowie

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

E. P. Thompson

We all have a loyalty to the Citadel and that won't change.