Loyalty Quotes

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

~ Robert Jordan

Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He’s gone.”“He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,” said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

~ J.k. Rowling

Besides, if you are who you claim to be, that makes you my true queen. Therefore, you have my loyalty.

~ Marissa Meyer

His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.

~ Emily Giffin

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

~ Joyce Maynard

Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.

~ L. Frank Baum

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

~ Agatha Christie

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve

~ Elbert Hubbard

I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged herself through the leaves. The way she lay there, I thought she was alive. I called her name. She made no movement. With the last ounce of strength in her body, she had dragged herself to the grave of Old Dan.

~ Wilson Rawls

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

~ Dashiell Hammett

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

~ Émile Zola

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

~ Paulo Coelho

Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don't score points for past action

~ Natasha Pulley

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert] Trivers together with the economists Robert Frank and Jack Hirshleifer has pointed out that pure magnanimity can evolve in an environment of people seeking to discriminate fair weather friends from loyal allies. Signs of heartfelt loyalty and generosity serve as guarantors of one s promises reducing a partner s worry that you will default on them. The best way to convince a skeptic that you are trustworthy and generous is to be trustworthy and generous.

~ Steven Pinker

My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord.

~ William Shakespeare

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

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

~ Andy Stanley

Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth “clear as the sun, fair as the moon,” and what besides—why, “amazing as an army withbanners”! A consistent Church is an amazing Church—an honest, upright Church would shake the world! The tramp ofgodly men is the tramp of heroes; these are the thundering legions that sweep everything before them. The men that arewhat they profess to be, hate the semblance of a lie—whatever shape it wears—and would sooner die than do that which is dishonest, or that which would be degrading to the glory of a Heaven-born race, and to the honor of Him by whose name they have been called! O Christians! You will be the world’s contempt; you will be their despising, and hissing unless you live for one objective!

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know?When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength; and when he was dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him.

~ Charles Dickens

A dog knows and respects his master; men respect their masters only under duress, envy them and plot their downfall.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I wasn't lying when I said I'd follow you out of this place. I just can't figure out why you want to take me with you.

~ Caitlin Sangster

Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m gonna make sure you’re alive before I go.

~ Henry V. O'neil

There were people in this world who didn't know how to take care of others. There were people who walked away even when they'd made a promise to stand by you. There were people who threw around the word love but only acted on it when it was convenient for them.

~ Leila Sales

Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Better be wrong to a stranger than be wrong to your husband - Treacherous Desires Book

~ Kritika Sharma

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog? said that mute caress.

~ Ouida

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

~ Robin Hobb

You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first.

~ Tor Seidler

Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to the direction they move in.

~ M.r. Carey

The true object of loyalty is a good legal constitution, which, as it condemns every instance of oppression and lawless power, derives a certain remedy to the sufferer by allowing him to remonstrate his grievances, and pointing out methods of relief when the gentle arts of persuasion have lost their efficacy.

~ Samuel Adams

Decency is such a rare thing in this world, and it can only be repaid with loyalty.

~ Mike Klepper

They all wanted me to sell you out.”There was silence on the line. They both knew that Vlad knew too much about Roman’s business dealings—both legal and illegal. He could have made a fucking fortune on selling Roman out.“Why haven’t you?” Roman said, sounding unconcerned, as if he hadn’t doubted for a moment that Vlad wouldn’t do it.Vlad scowled and took a gulp of beer.“Because apparently I’m an idiot.

~ Alessandra Hazard

In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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. Proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another.

~ George Orwell

He pressed against Master's greatcoat and rubbed him with his shoulder, which meant that he understood everything and was ready for anything, even to die if need be. Ruslan had not yet had to face death himself, but he had seen men and dogs die. There was nothing more terrible, but if he was with Master, it was another matter: that he could stand.

~ Georgi Vladimov

If your master demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty.

~ Jeff Wheeler

Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity.

~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

I will love you as an oven loves malfunctioning in the middle of roasting a turkey.

~ Lemony Snicket

He belongs to me, and I to him... without each-other, we are merely two lost pieces, empty, without purpose...

~ Chelsea Radojcic