#loyalty

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first, to the chosen adventure, but then, also, to the ideals of the order of knighthood. Now, this second commitment seems to put Gawain's way in opposition to the way of the Buddha, who when ordered by the Lord of Duty to perform the social duties proper to his caste, simply ignored the command, and that night achieved illumination as well as release from rebirth. Gawain is a European and, like Odysseus, who remained true to the earth and returned from the Island of the Sun to his marriage with Penelope, he has accepted, as the commitment of his life, not release from but loyalty to the values of life in this world. And yet, as we have just seen, whether following the middle way of the Buddha or the middle way of Gawain, the passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#courage #desire #fear #gawain #hero

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#berkeley #declined #i #loyalty #oath

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#both #give #great #i #i think

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men. ↗

— Vanessa Marcil

#friendships #her #honesty #loyalty #makes

I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#expect #give #i #i do #loyalty

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. ↗

— John McCarthy

#committing #fired #generates #genocide #getting

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty. ↗

— Will McDonough

#contracts #fan #hurt #jump #loyalty

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through? ↗

— Mike Rogers

#around #back #down #footprint #forget

What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers. ↗

— David Neeleman

#comes #dedicated #loyalty #our #through