self-loyalty Quotes

Independence .... is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

I felt like I needed to come to terms with the decision I'd made to let go of my family. What do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel that loyalty to them is in conflict somehow with loyalty to yourself?

I felt like we had stories about family loyalty; I didn't feel like we had stories about what to do when you felt that loyalty to your family was in conflict with loyalty to yourself.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

I'm true to myself, but I always have a soft spot for my husband no matter how nefarious I am.

I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

My loyalty is to myself, actually. I don't know if it's to my readers.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

It's really important to do everything that you possibly can to stay true to yourself.

I am my best friend. Other friends may come and go, but I am always here for me.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

The biggest commitment you must keep is your commitment to yourself.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.