Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know? When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.
—Donna Lynn Hope
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
—Mark Twain
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
—George Bernard Shaw
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
—Henrik Ibsen
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
—Mignon McLaughlin
There was something special about family by choice. It wasn't blood that held us all together. It was loyalty. Love.
—Cambria Hebert in #Junkie
There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him.
—Mariana Zapata in Under Locke
Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you… You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life.
—John Gardner