Loyalty Quotes

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

George Orwell

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Theodore Roosevelt

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Horace, Epistles, bk I, epistle

No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24

Bible

In treat 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. Ruth 1:16

Bible

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others

Henry David Thoreau

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Pablo Picasso

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Samuel Johnson

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Albert Camus

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for De

He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Sir Winston Churchill

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson

We are all the President's men.

Henry Kissinger

Birds of a feather flock together.

Proverb

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

Proverb

To betray you must first belong.

Harold Philby