26 Metaphors for loyalty

Loyalty to God or at least to the individual sense of right to-day as in the past is the first essential of effective citizenship.

Loyalty, like the rest of human life, is an illusion.

" "Loyalty is a fine quality.

Loyalty is an ethical outcome of this political theory.

The one principle of the book is that loyalty to the divine commands is the one foundation of all well-being, individual and social.

" Mr. Steadman cleared his throat at thisand seemed about to speakbut she went on without noticing: "Loyalty is a gentle growth, which springs in the heart.

Now my thesis is that loyalty is essentially adoration with service, and that there is no true adoration without practical loyalty.

Either, then, loyalty is altogether a service of myths, or else the causes which the loyal serve belong to a realm of real being which is above the level of mere natural fact and natural law.

The arrival of the refugees from Aratat gave the château a staunch little garrison, not counting the servants, whose loyalty was an uncertain quantity.

Loyalty is a word too often used to designate a sentiment worthy only of valets, advertising tradesmen, and writers of claptrap articles.

"And I'm surprised to think that you, Rolfe, whose loyalty to your superior officer is a thing I would have staked my life on, should have sat there and listened to such rubbish.

There was infinite cause for alarm for months afterwards even to the Fall of Delhi; but at no time were we in such a strait as at that period when the loyalty or defection of the Sikh regiments and people was an open question.

It is idle to suppose that the dull louts we find here, not enlightened even enough to know that loyalty is the best policy, can be allowed the highest privilege of the moral, the intelligent, and the progressive,self-government.

Loyalty to one's race was a more sacred principle than deference to a weak old man's whims.

The experiment of the Union was as yet inchoate; its benefits were prospective; and loyalty to it was loyalty to a splendid idea the realization of which lay in the future rather than in the present.

But Bondsman's unwavering loyalty to his master's every mood and every movement had become such a matter of course that the fine example was lost in the monotony of repetition.

"LOI- AUTE, steadfastness to principle, is noble, but personal loyalty, to some mere puppet or the bush the crown hangs on, is a pernicious figment."

Loyalty, patriotism, friendship, humanity, are all virtues; but may they not sometimes clash?

Not Cuban loyalty, for the expression 'Faithful Cuba' was a lie from the beginning.

The loyalty that now fills your minds is merely one expression of a certain spirit which ought to pervade all our livesnot only in our studies, but in our homes, in our offices, in our political and civic lifenot merely upon holidays, or upon other great occasions, but upon our working days; and most of all when our tasks seem commonplace and heavy.

The loyalty of the English gentry was not only worth notice, but the power of the gentry is extraordinary visible in this matter.

Loyalty is a religion which is almost proof against its idol's selfishness and incompetence.

In his sixth point, among the fourteen points, no longer pure, but violated and outraged worse than the women of a conquered race by a tribe of Kurds, Wilson said on January 8, 1918, that the treatment meted out to Russia by the sister nations, and therefore their loyalty in assisting her to settle herself, should be the stern proof of their goodwill.

ROYCE'S 'loyalty to loyalty' is an excellent example.

Loyalty to Jehovah was not only the corner stone of Israel's religion but also of the Hebrew state.

26 Metaphors for  loyalty