Quotes about Loyalty

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Keep your friendships in repair.

It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo

I question the value of our civilization when I see that our public representatives have lost hold of the simplest, strongest truths. Nothing demonstrates the emptiness of a person's mind more than putting party loyalty above principle.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

The only way to have a friend is to be one

A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?

Old Zhou Jin began singing a hymn Quan had heard and reluctantly sung many times since childhood: "One day I'll die for the Lord.

He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.' 

Marriage brings together not just a man and his wife but their children and their struggles. To suddenly drop the partner who has carried that load with you along life's journey for all these years for someone with no strings or worries attached is cruel. Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one.