(361 quotes found)
“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
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
Colin Powell
“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.”
“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.”
Rensis Likert
“Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes”
Mark Twain
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans”
James Herriot
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Sometimes party loyalty asks too much”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”
Woodrow T. Wilson