All Quotes By Tag: Loyalty
“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.”
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“Whoever said you have to be an A$$ to be a boss, should never get to be a boss. Especially in a democratic society. Being an A$$ boss in a democratic society only causes resentment and disloyalty. Motivate your employees by instilling pride in them for themselves and for their work brand. – Strong by Kailin Gow on how to build a Strong Company”
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“People with no human values are worse than zombies.”
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“The faithfulness of God is forever sure.”
“You made me feel worthwhile…. like for once it mattered if I was here or not because I actually meant something to someone…. because I meant something to you. I miss that feeling.”
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“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.”
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“Your father was no longer a young man. he was already in his fifties.’Fifty-six,’ Eddie said blankly.Fifty-six,’ the old woman repeated. ‘His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold of him, and in time, he died.’Because of Mickey?’ Eddie said.Because of loyalty,’ she said.People don’t die because of loyalty.’They don’t?’ she smiled. ‘Religion? government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?’Eddie shrugged.Better,’ she said, ‘To be loyal to one another.”
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“I found it idiotically distressing that a sharp finger whistle could no longer summon them outdoors into a playful twilight. An ancient discovery was now mine to make: to leave is to make nothing less than a mortal action. The suspicion came to me for the fist time that they were figures of my dreaming, like the loved dead: my mother and all these vanished boys. And after Mama’s cremation I could not rid myself of the notion that she had been placed in the furnace of memory even when alive and, by extension, that one’s dealings with others, ostensibly vital, at a certain point become dealings with the dead.”
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“You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind,when my wings arefeeling heavy &i’ve forgottenhow tofly.”
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“Some teach youwhat can’t be taught,by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.”
“…only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.”
“The people are like an audience watching a drama. They have characters whose sides they chose even before the start of the show, but they know little or nothing about the people behind the stage―the manipulators.”
“True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,”
“Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.”
“Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.”