Definition of Fidelity

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Fidelity

Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.

Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.

Adherence to the marriage contract.

Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.

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Fidelity Quotations

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander Pope

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt

Fidelity is the sister of justice.
Horace

Fidelity Translations

fidelity in German is Treue, Genauigkeit
fidelity in Latin is fidelitas
fidelity in Norwegian is troskap
fidelity in Spanish is fidelidad
fidelity in Swedish is trofasthet, trohet

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