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Quotes about Fidelity


It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.

William Backhouse

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Alexander Pope

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Charles Peguy

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Edmund Burke

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Grace Paley

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Ellen Key

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.

James Parton

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

Ida Ross Wylie

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Clara Cicero

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Katherine Anne Porter

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislike being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

Ninon De Lenclos

By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn; They will insure her constancy, True friendship and fidelity.

Unattributed Author

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

Carl Seneca

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.

Charles Peguy

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

George Macdonald

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