"Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades."
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"Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes."
"What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty."
"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best."
"Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family."
"There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration."
"If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth."
"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
"You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is."
"Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have."
"Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there."
"Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles."
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
"If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them."
"He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life."
"When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’."
"Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage."
"Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies."
"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths."
"Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others."