#loyalty

In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that loyalty is more important than excellence and they use that idea to distract the team from their own inability to perform. ↗

— Phil Cooke

#loyalty #openness #leadership

...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder ↗

— Elizabeth Funderbirk

#author #book #contemporary #debut #drama

This made my father laugh. 'Mary made a cake, did she? Well, well. Better that than she should make a cake for herself, I suppose.' Peter then burst out: 'Why must you always be making a game of Mary? 'Tis not fair; 'tis not sporting. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love #loyalty #mary-bennet

A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#male-and-female #marriage #relationships #tested #marriage

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#continue #felt #i #loyalty #might

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#coming #death #end #freedom #haunt

Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of loyalty to who I am as a person, based solely on who I was as a person. To be loyal to myself is to allow myself to grow and change, and challenge who I am and what I think. The only thing I am for sure is unsure, and this means I’m growing, and not stagnant or shrinking. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#define #definition #growth #inspiration #inspirational

Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it still hurts if someone isn’t loyal to you. ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#hurt #love #loyalty #age

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#call #corner #few #got #great

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#i #i think #inspires #loyalty #people