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The book ‘Outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell talks about the 10,000-hour theory–that almost anyone can master a skill if they dedicate 10,000 hours to it. The same is true for your side hustle. If you put in the right hours–into the right places–then you can build a successful side hustle, too.The rate at which you put these hours in is up to you. Yes, if you go slower, then it will take longer. But compared to your other option–doing nothing at all–what’s the hurry?Here’s the tried and true technique I use to put the necessary time into any new project without overwhelming myself:Set aside 20 minutes–no more!–every single day to work on your project, and protect those 20 minutes with everything you have. Never let anything get in the way of this time.
— Rebecca Scott, Hustling 101: Selling Your Talents Without Selling Your Soul
Everyone has at least one talent. It's just that some talents are pointless.
— Andrea Kneeland, How to Pose for Hustler
Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.
— Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me
What's talent but the ability to get away with something?
— Tennessee Williams
If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.
— G.H. Hardy
Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The world won't be loyal and burden itself to those who are having one skill and talent any longer. Make yourself useful and indispensable...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Talent is nice to have, perseverance is even better.
— Martin Limbeck, No Is Short for Next Opportunity: How Top Sales Professionals Think
If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.
— Beau Sides, Unseen Tears: The Challenges of Orphans and Orphanages in China
The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.
— Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors
Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent
— Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare
— Jeffrey Overstreet, Cyndere's Midnight
Some might debate whether people are born with talent, or whether it is developed. Toyota’s stand is clear—give us the seeds of talent and we will plant them, tend the soil, water and nurture the seedlings, and eventually harvest the fruits of our labor... Of course the wise farmer selects only the best seeds, but even with careful selection there is no guarantee that the seeds will grow, or that the fruits they yield will be sweet, and yet the effort must be made because it provides the best chance of developing a strong crop.
— Jeffrey K. Liker, Toyota Talent
Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
— Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
When we stop pursuing God`s purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.
— Sunday Adelaja
Talent is an art of gaining admiration!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Contrary to popular belief, someone being an asshole, jerk, immature, or rude does not contradict or degrade their talents.
— Franbunny Alice Viera
Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as they don’t know how you usually act.
— Kare Anderson, Mutuality Matters More Living a Happy, Meaningful and Satisfying Life With Others
I have always seen talented person being ignored.
— Srinivas Shenoy
She looked as if she were in the middle of posing for an unbelievably glamorous photo shoot. Then again, she always did. It was her talent. Clary, however, was staring stubbornly up into Isabelle’s face and talking to her. Simon thought Clary would get her way and get Isabelle to pay attention to her eventually. That was her talent.
— Cassandra Clare, Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
Talent comes from education you had,languages you know and finally from skills you gain in your life.
— Adriano Corso
Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Master
It don't matter about all that anyway," Armstrong added. "You think it do, but it don't. A man ain't just his one talent. Lil Louis needs you. And Jones look to you like you his brother. You got the talent of making others your kin, your blood. Music, well that's different. I reckon it got its own worth, but it ain't a man's whole life.""Aww hell, Louis," I thought. "Ain't nothing else I want.
— Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues
If I had to drink water like my cat, I’d croak over dead in no time. Maybe it’s like eating rice with chop sticks? Both are absurdly difficult and unfathomable for me. Not that I am into ‘ease’ (clearly a review of my life shouts otherwise), just some things obviously take time and talent I do not inherently possess. I move on to things I AM designed for!
— Rhonda Louise Robbins
…to own only a little talent…was an awful, plaguing thing….being only a little bit special meant you expected too much, most of the time.
— Mary Robinson Reynolds
Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn’t. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one’s craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts.
— Ken  Goldstein, Endless Encores: Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits
I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death. But Moses’s pictures dripped with life and reminded us of our loss.
— Amy Harmon, The Law of Moses
Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
— Dolly Parton
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
If we make a small commitment towards keeping our talent alive, one day it becomes a beautiful gift, which nourishes us, makes our lives complete.
— Subroto Bagchi
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
— Brendan Francis
Success is never about money, it's always about talent.
— Junaid Raza
It is the time to tremendous awakening toward “inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Master
Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you’re lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent’s preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it’s supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn.[…]If talent’s the foundation you rely on, and yet it’s so unreliable that you have no idea what’s going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
I believe my using the talent He's given me is His will for my life. Why else would He have bothered giving it to me?
— Dawn Crandall, The Hesitant Heiress
Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof! You are in deep, ice-cold water frozen like a dead herring. Intelligence is a harder gift, for this you must work, you must practise it, challenge it and maybe towards the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow whereas intelligence is the substance.
— Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.
— Karen Maitland, Company of Liars
Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.
— Tom Rath, Strengths Finder 2.0
Your life is your song, sing it loud!
— Rob Liano
Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
— Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
— Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.
— George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.
— Rich Lesser
Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.
— Gregor Collins, The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
Being best at things has nothing to do with talent
—  it is all about self - discipline and commitment.
I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.
— Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
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— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan was brilliant at what he did, and he might well have made it even if Ash’s father hadn’t encouraged him, but it really helped that Ethan had grown up in a sophisticated city, and that he had married into a wealthy family. Ash was talented, but not all that talented. This was the thing that no one said, not once. But of course it was fortunate that Ash didn’t have to worry about money while trying to think about art. Her wealthy childhood had given her a head start, and now Ethan had picked up where her childhood had left off.
— Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think inTherefore threatening ways?
— William Zinsser
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— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
— Sara Sheridan
Talent can take you so far
—  Hardwork can take you ANYWHERE.
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
— Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.
— Robert Watson, Leadership Secrets of the Salvation Army
Now if only we stopped for a moment to think, it is quite obvious that there is no merit or design or logic in the way luck and talent are distributed in this world. For every man kissed by the sun there are millions in the shade, and there is no valid reason to rule out-or maintain-the possibility that the one is better than the other.
— Filippo Bologna, The Parrots
Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.
— V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind
In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have.
— Michael  Jackson, Moonwalk
The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without blinking. Sometimes this intensity was charming, in a geeky way, such as when he was explaining the profundity of Bob Dylan's music or why whatever product he was unveiling at that moment was the most amazing thing that Apple had ever made. At other times it could be terrifying, such as when he was fulminating about Google or Microsoft ripping of Apple.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Every man, every woman, every child has some talent, some power, some opportunity of getting good and doing good. Each day offers some occasion for using this talent. As we use it, it gradually increases, improves, becomes native to the character. As we neglect it, it dwindles, withers, and disappears. This is the stern but benign law by which we live.
— James Clarke, Every-Day Religion
Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..
— Himmilicious
There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.
— Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense
The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.
— Tom Rath, Strengths Finder 2.0
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983)
— Eric Hoffer
A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.
— Witold Gombrowicz, Diary
Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky
— Zeeshan Ahmed
While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.
— Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
Talent is 98% hard work - even Brel said so. The best signal for lack of talent is therefore quite simply low production. That does of course not mean high production guarantees talent, so something does exist that needs to be present - what is that? Talent and Drive - both are quite useless without the other, but what exactly is 'talent'? I would say its a form of the unconditioned: in some people it survives, even unto old age. Some learn to focus it on a particular craft. But without drive, it still goes nowhere.
— Martijn Benders
it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.
— Andrew James Pritchard
Beauty is a God-given talent that we should all conserve.
— Moffat Machingura, How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.
— Jay Perry, Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life
Asking for and receiving help is a way to prime the pump of generosity.
— Jay Perry, Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life
Turn your talent loose with room to run. Talent wants to romp and play.
— Jay Perry, Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life
If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position hire the best writer. it doesn't matter if the person is marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever, their writing skills will pay off. That's because being a good writer is about more than writing clear writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. great writers know how to communicate. they make things easy to understand. they can put themselves in someone else's shoes. they know what to omit. And those are qualities you want in any candidate. Writing is making a comeback all over our society... Writing is today's currency for good ideas.
— Jason Fried, Rework
You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.
— Tom Rath
I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent
— Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
— T.S. Eliot
Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.
— Keri Arthur, Full Moon Rising
To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.
— Richard Russo, Empire Falls
Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.
— Hiroko Sakai
It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
Don't you ever get in trouble for things like that at the school for the Incredibly gifted?" Jane asked. "No," Merissa said sadly. "Our talent is mischief, so whenever we do something bad they just encourage us to try harder.
— Lizzie K. Foley, Remarkable
As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.
— Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
How did the hearing go?” she asked.“We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.”“The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours,” William corrected.“Yes, but ‘we die at dawn the day after tomorrow’ doesn’t sound nearlyas dramatic.”“Does it have to be dramatic all the time?” Catherine murmured.“Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine ismaking melodramatic statements.
— Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon
I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’‘Of what?’‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.
— Kirsten Kaschock, Sleight
Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?
— Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. 
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
— Confucius, The Analects
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
— Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --""He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He’s gone.”“He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,” said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Besides, if you are who you claim to be, that makes you my true queen. Therefore, you have my loyalty.
— Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when shebids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!"-Royce Westmoreland
— Judith McNaught, A Kingdom of Dreams
You are a Lightwood," Cecily said. "You stayed because you were loyal to your family name. It is not cowardice.""Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?"Cecily opened her mouth, then closed it again. Gabriel was looking for her, his eyes shining in the moonlight. He seemed genuinely desperate to hear her answer. She wondered if he had anyone else to talk to. She could see how it might be terrifying to take one's moral qualms to Gideon; he seemed so staunch, as if he never questioned himself in his life and would not understand those who did."I think," she said, choosing her words with care, "that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. Look at the Magister. He does what he does because he hates the Shadowhunters, out of loyalty to his parents, who cared for him, and who were killed. It is not beyond the realm of understanding. And yet nothing excuses the result. I think when we make choices-for each choice is individual of the choices we have made before-we must examine not only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
— Emily Giffin
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
— Joyce Maynard, Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties
Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart -- the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it -- and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.
— Maurice Franks
Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. 
— Agatha Christie, Peril at End House
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve
— Elbert Hubbard, Works of Elbert Hubbard
I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged herself through the leaves. The way she lay there, I thought she was alive. I called her name. She made no movement. With the last ounce of strength in her body, she had dragged herself to the grave of Old Dan.
— Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade
— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.
— Émile Zola, Une Page d'amour
You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don't score points for past action,
— Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert] Trivers together with the economists Robert Frank and Jack Hirshleifer has pointed out that pure magnanimity can evolve in an environment of people seeking to discriminate fair weather friends from loyal allies. Signs of heartfelt loyalty and generosity serve as guarantors of one s promises reducing a partner s worry that you will default on them. The best way to convince a skeptic that you are trustworthy and generous is to be trustworthy and generous.
— Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who has it, gives it free of charge.
— Ellen J. Barrier
My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
— Samuel  Butler, Hudibras
Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.
— Andy Stanley
Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth “clear as the sun, fair as the moon,” and what besides—why, “amazing as an army withbanners”! A consistent Church is an amazing Church—an honest, upright Church would shake the world! The tramp ofgodly men is the tramp of heroes; these are the thundering legions that sweep everything before them. The men that arewhat they profess to be, hate the semblance of a lie—whatever shape it wears—and would sooner die than do that which is dishonest, or that which would be degrading to the glory of a Heaven-born race, and to the honor of Him by whose name they have been called! O Christians! You will be the world’s contempt; you will be their despising, and hissing unless you live for one objective!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.
— Janet Robinson
One never knows how loyalty is born.
— Robert Morse
Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
— Ada Velez-Boardley
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
Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength; and when he was dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him.
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
A dog knows and respects his master; men respect their masters only under duress, envy them and plot their downfall.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Forgiving unforgivable things is real forgiveness.Loving unlovable things is real love.Seeing someone’s inner most monster and choosing to stay is true loyalty. (It’s not something everyone can do)
— Cody Edward Lee Miller
You may never find out who reported you. If your child has been hurt, his teacher or doctor may have called the state child-abuse hotline, not wanting to assume, as she might in a richer neighbourhood, that it was an accident. But it could also have been a neighbour who heard yelling, or an ex-boyfriend who wants to get back at you, or someone who thinks you drink too much or simply doesn't like you. People know that a call to the hotline is an easy to blow up your life'.(Kiedy moi przyjaciele/znajomi zrobili mały, głupi wybryk w Warszawie, bez namysłu zeznałam na policji, że nic się nie stało oraz że to samochody od nich się odbijały. Taka sama wspaniałomyślność często może nie działać jednak w drugą stronę.)
— Larissa MacFarquhar
I wasn't lying when I said I'd follow you out of this place. I just can't figure out why you want to take me with you.
— Caitlin Sangster, Last Star Burning
Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m gonna make sure you’re alive before I go.
— Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes
There were people in this world who didn't know how to take care of others. There were people who walked away even when they'd made a promise to stand by you. There were people who threw around the word love but only acted on it when it was convenient for them.
— Leila Sales, Tonight the Streets Are Ours
Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Better be wrong to a stranger than be wrong to your husband - Treacherous Desires Book
— Kritika  Sharma, Treacherous Desires
He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?" said that mute caress.
— Ouida, A Dog of Flanders
I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.
— Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin
You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first.
— Tor Seidler, Firstborn
Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to the direction they move in.
— M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge
The true object of loyalty is a good legal constitution, which, as it condemns every instance of oppression and lawless power, derives a certain remedy to the sufferer by allowing him to remonstrate his grievances, and pointing out methods of relief when the gentle arts of persuasion have lost their efficacy.
— Samuel Adams
Decency is such a rare thing in this world, and it can only be repaid with loyalty.
— Mike Klepper
They all wanted me to sell you out.”There was silence on the line. They both knew that Vlad knew too much about Roman’s business dealings—both legal and illegal. He could have made a fucking fortune on selling Roman out.“Why haven’t you?” Roman said, sounding unconcerned, as if he hadn’t doubted for a moment that Vlad wouldn’t do it.Vlad scowled and took a gulp of beer.“Because apparently I’m an idiot.
— Alessandra Hazard, Just a Bit Wicked
Real One is worth a thousand loyalty
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. Proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another.
— George Orwell, 1984
He pressed against Master's greatcoat and rubbed him with his shoulder, which meant that he understood everything and was ready for anything, even to die if need be. Ruslan had not yet had to face death himself, but he had seen men and dogs die. There was nothing more terrible, but if he was with Master, it was another matter: that he could stand.
— Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan
If your master demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty.
— Jeff Wheeler, The Thief's Daughter
Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity.
— Lisa Tawn Bergren
I will love you as an oven loves malfunctioning in the middle of roasting a turkey.
— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
He belongs to me, and I to him... without each-other, we are merely two lost pieces, empty, without purpose...
— Chelsea Radojcic, The Lonely Teddy Bear: Janie's Story
Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls.
— H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon
A loyal servant does not think of things outside of his control.
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just to find that the cargo of electronics he was to ship to Beowulf had been taken by another freighter for a lower fee. It took him until Wednesday before he found another cargo – which had to reach Earth by Saturday. The last straw was when his crew mutinied a day out of the Hermes system and demanded a pay increase. The union tended to call that sort of thing “collective bargaining”, not actually mutiny, but hey – the results are the same. He tended to favor the term “piracy”, but this wasn’t the high seas and out here, there were real pirates to worry about. His former crew had also wanted more time off and a better cook – at least one who knew how which end of a frying pan to hold. He was unable to comply, and so was forced to stop at Beowulf anyway. That was the last time he saw them. Fortunately for him, Weaver, Fuller and Jang opted to stay with him. Whether it was out of loyalty, or perhaps just convenience, he never knew.
— Christina Engela, Blachart
The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.
— Anonymous
Always try to align your loyalties and commitment with the largest scope of the context you find yourself in. For example, if you work for a department in a company, align yourself with the company—not the department; if you are in an army platoon, align yourself with the army.
— Clifford Cohen
IF you draw a line in the sand you betray the loyalty of your cause
— Robert Wesley Miller
Make it easy for your customers to do talk to you.
— Kevin Stirtz, More Loyal Customers: 21 Real World Lessons to Keep Your Customers Coming Back
Without loyalty all the training in the world is useless. Worse than useless.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
I’m done losing. Do you fucking hear me? I am done losing. Spare me your precious self-pity, because this isn’t a stage and I didn’t pay two coppers to cry my eyes out over anyone’s death speech. You don’t fucking get one, understand? I don’t care if you cough up buckets of blood. Buckets I can carry.
— Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
Ultimately, when he held your treasonous letter in his hand and saw how you had lied to him, the choice between me and you was the choice between someone who loves him and someone who didn't.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss
It was a vow we made those long years ago. Neither of us spoke of it afterwards, but it hung between us like a spider web, fragile and easy to break, but danged hard to get shed of once the threads took hold.
— Cassie Dandridge Selleck, The Pecan Man
You don't even know what loyalty means.""The hell I don't! Ciena, if I weren't loyal to you, would I be here?
— Claudia Gray, Lost Stars
Loyalty, while it can be admirable is also conditional. Dependent on forces inside and out, on perceptions, on likes and dislikes. It can be misguided and flawed, even dumb depending on circumstance.Integrity, however, has no conditions. It cannot be earned. It is not based on circumstance, but on inherent strength, belief and purpose. To be called loyal isn't necessarily a compliment. Hitler's henchman were loyal. To be recognized for integrity is a true honor.
— Red Haircrow
I slowly wipe my bloody hand a crossed my jacket and draw my switch blade from my pocket. I show it to him. Mutt regards it with contempt. "How is it you're thinking you'll stop e with that wee thing?" The blade snaps out audibly. Mutt would not be the largest thing to die on the slender point of it. "I don't think I'll stop you," I say. "I think that you will cut my horse and then when you come out of that stall, I will use this to cut your heart out and hand it to you.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.
— Shannon L. Alder
I see the pricks of blood the spear has left in his shoulder, and when Mutt slides the door shut, I spring on to Mutt and press my little switchblade to his great bulging neck. I can see his skin sucking in with his pulse. My knife lies right next to it. "I thought you said to beat you on the sand," Mutt says. corr slams the wall of his stall with his hooves. My voice hisses out through a cage of my teeth. "I also said ten drops of your blood for every drop of his." I want a pool of his blood around him like the one beneath Edana. I want him to lie against this wall and whimper like she does.I want him to know he'll never stand again. I want him to remember David Prince's death mask as he wears it for himself.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism
—  he pushed at its borders.
Oh, Barley. You know me so well. Better than any cat ever has. But there is a secret that I have kept from you without meaning to: I have always been a warrior. I have a loyalty to these cats, and I must fight alongside them, whatever happens.
— Erin Hunter, Ravenpaw's Farewell
Peer into your loving dog's eyes and you will have seen true trust and loyalty .
— Jeff Tikari
JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
You'd be surprised how rare loyalty is, sometimes.
— Zoe Sugg
Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.
— Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
— Hanna Arendt
Then you shouldn’t be worried about him being with me. You can have him back when I’m done with him.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
We must choose our allegiances carefully, for there is no going back on them.
— Jayne Castel, Darkest before Dawn
Why work today? I'll take Tuesday on, just like I took Monday off. That's just the kind of dedicated worker I am.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
— J. Horace McFarland
It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.
— Heidi Tankersley, The Mod Code
In a blacked-out house, stripped of all comforts, it's easy to turn your anger outward, to attack this city he's lying at the center of, with its filth and its pollution and its oppression, but really, New York is the only thing that's never abandoned him.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
As soon as they were alone, Ioan’s face softened. “To what do I owe this pleasure, Christian?” “We are in need of an army.” “Done,” Ioan said without hesitation. “My men are yours.” “We’ll have to go back through the Holy Land,” Phantom said. “That bothers me not.” It was Adara’s turn to frown at the man’s blasé acceptance of their mission. “Don’t you want to know why we need your army?” Ioan shrugged. “I assume it is to fight.” “Aye,” she said slowly, “but don’t you want to know why you’re fighting?” “I am fighting because Brother Christian needs me.”-Ioan, Christian, Phantom, & Adara
— Kinley MacGregor, Return of the Warrior
All my life, since I came to the institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace, When you are gone from me, who will see me like that? There was a silence then, Jem stood as still as a statue. With his gaze WIll searched for, and found, the parabatai rune on Jem's shoulder; like is own, it had faded to a pale white. At last Jem spoke. The cool remoteness had left his voice. Will breathed in hard, remembering how much that voice had shaped the years of his growing up, its steady kindness a lighthouse beacon in the dark. "Have faith in yourself. You can be your own mirror".
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
Don’t let the bad leg fool you, son. If you hurt my princess, I will be the nightmare you never see coming.
— C.J. Redwine, The Shadow Queen
Gabril’s voice was strong and sure. “I believe in you, and I’ve fought for you, because in a world full of people who crumble before an evil too terrifying to comprehend, you put up your fists and fight.
— C.J. Redwine, The Shadow Queen
It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.
— Sondra Faye
But because day at her dawning hours hath so bewitched me, must I yet love her when glutted with triumph she settles to garish noon? . . . Who dares call me turncoat, who do but follow now as I have followed this rare wisdom all my days: to love the sunrise and the sundown and the morning and the evening star.
— E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros
Attracting loyal customers based on price is like believing in the tooth fairy.
— Colin Myles, How to Avoid Business Failure: 7 Steps
Can't be loyal to everyone, it's a conflict of interest.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
The only difference between loyalty and love is that for love you do all of these things because you want to, and you would do them again, and again, and again.Loyalty is learned; love is organic.
— J.A. Redmerski, The Black Wolf
You're making an admirable go of it, but in the end, loyalty is about taking aside.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Finale
On Loyalty:Loyalty is warranted only when it's been earned.Misplacing loyalty is like signing blank checks.
— Kalifer Deil
some people will only "Love You" as much as they can use you. Their loyalty ends where the benefits stop.
— Srinivas Shenoy
In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.
— Brian D. McLaren, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
Chits knew no ideology.
— Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
I'm going to continue keeping an eye on him, Becca said. If he does anything shady, I'll report back. I swear I won't let anything bad happen to you if I can help it.  He nodded as he collected the copper box and began to follow after Barnabas. The feeling is entirely mutual, Becca Hatcher.
— Morgan Rhodes
There is a language for every heart, you just need to master one.
— Alahdal A. Hussein
We never have as great an opportunity to show self-comfort as when others around us aren’t. Hint: Don’t be a jerk because someone else is. Praise the behaviors in others that you most want to flourish.
— Kare Anderson, Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get
— Maggie  Hall
Brambleclaw turned to Squirrelflight first. “Will you fight beside me?”Their eyes met for a long moment. “Always,” she meowed.
— Erin Hunter, The Last Hope
Kutesosh gajair’is.” It was a bare whisper. “Such simple phrases. I destroy the enemy. I protect life. And my personal favorite—” “Kun-kabynalti osu fuir’is.” “None shall die while I watch over them. The irony is so beautiful.” Elkinsair wiped at his eyes.
— Patrick Weekes