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A true friend is the one who will always help you move...the dead body when you said, 'I know a spot deeper than this.'
Author:
Joan Wells
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Success is the result of hard work, perseverance, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence
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Colin Powell
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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Zig Ziglar
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If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.
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William Wyler
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I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
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Edgar Winter
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Loyalty is not blind devotion, but a conscious choice to stand by what truly matters.
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Maya Angelou
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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
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Simone Weil
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I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
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Jesse Ventura
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All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Mark Twain
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.
Author:
Linda Tripp
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And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
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Lynn Swann
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Jack Steinberger
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I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.
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Kenneth Starr
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I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
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George Simpson
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In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
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Joe Simon
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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Fiona Shaw
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It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
Author:
John Scott
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Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
Author:
Bob Schaffer
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As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
Author:
Pierre Salinger
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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.
Author:
Jim Ryun
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War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
Author:
Robert Runcie
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You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.
Author:
Donald Regan
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Author:
Colin Powell
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The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
Author:
Dick Patten
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I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Author:
Dick Patten
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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
Author:
Peter Pace
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What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.
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David Neeleman
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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.
Author:
Jeff Miller
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Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.
Author:
Will McDonough
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A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
Author:
Joyce Maynard
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Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
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Marcus Lucan
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Author:
Haniel Long
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As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities.
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Romeo LeBlanc
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We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.
Author:
Nicholas Lea
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Author:
Ann Landers
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The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
Author:
Lenny Kravitz
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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
Author:
Neil Kinnock
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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Author:
Ben Kingsley
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Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
Author:
John Keegan
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The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Author:
Michael Jordan
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The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .
Author:
Mordecai Johnson
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It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.
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Kevin Johnson
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And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
Author:
Elton John
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Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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My honor is my loyalty.
Author:
Heinrich Himmler
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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
Author:
James Herriot
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Author:
Samuel Goldwyn
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
Author:
William Gladstone
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
Author:
Garet Garrett
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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.
Author:
Marie France
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Author:
Marie France
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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
Author:
Joe Eszterhas
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Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
Author:
Christopher Dawson
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Author:
George Curtis
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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
Author:
Pierre Coubertin
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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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.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
Author:
Thomas Cochrane
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Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
Author:
John Clark
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I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Author:
Arthur Capper
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I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.
Author:
Prescott Bush
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Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
Author:
Thomas Bulfinch
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Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.
Author:
Jonathan Brown
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The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
Author:
Joseph Brant
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The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.
Author:
Jolene Blalock
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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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.
Author:
Ernie Banks
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Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Author:
Ernie Banks
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The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
Author:
Jan Balkenende
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Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
Author:
Emily Balch
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Author:
Isabel Allende
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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.
Author:
Floyd Abrams
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
Author:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
