Loyalty Quotes

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
Adam Clayton

Friendship, Age, Job

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
Margaret Atwood

Art, Artist, Unless

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.
Linda Tripp

Corruption, Party, Regardless

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
William O. Douglas

Life, Political, Living

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
Graham Greene

Sense, Felt, Belong

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
Ernie Banks

Work, Business, Career

What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.
David Neeleman

Through, Dedicated, Buy

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
Fiona Shaw

Whole, Seems, Gone

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby

Hate, Envy, Thinking

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
Karen Armstrong

Life, Faith, Trust

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell

Life, Able, Thanks

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.
Jim Ryun

Religion, Country, Her

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
Floyd Abrams

Find, Same, Cannot

Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap, and become anarchists. Either way may well be a reaction to my manipulation, my values. We are all the product of the indoctrination we received at the hands of our parents, even when we are repudiating that ideology.
Ayelet Waldman

Children, Parents, May

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby

Respect, Teacher, Lesson

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
Mark Hoppus

Job, Person, Made

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
George Strait

Love, Change, Music

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
Pierre de Coubertin

Ask, Olympic, Oath

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
Conrad Black

Anyone, Company, Quite

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Bainbridge Colby

Character, Country, Cannot

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
Jeff Miller

Good, Great, Future

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
John McCarthy

Getting, Jobs, Greater

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life, Great, Best

I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.
James Caan

Win, Sense, Kids

We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.
Pranab Mukherjee

Mother, Children, Integrity

If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through?
Mike Rogers

Forget, Saying, Real

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.
Will McDonough

Hurt, Ability, Players

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Marie de France

Faith, Great, Men

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.
Nicholas Lea

Great, Best, Important

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

Team, Used, Worth

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