Our Centers for Ethics:

Quotations: Loyalty, friendship, gratitude

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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
— Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 28th U.S. President

New friends are silver, but old friends are gold.
— Unknown

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
— Vietnamese saying

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
— Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher (121-180 A.D.)

Loyalty oaths increase the number of liars.
— Noel Peattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
— Cicero (Marcus Tullius), Roman orator, philosopher and statesman (106-43 B.C.)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.
— Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American humorist, author and journalist (1835-1910)

Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.
— Elbert Hubbard, American entrepreneur and philosopher (founder of the Roycroft firm) (1856-1915)

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
— Thomas Hudson Jones, American sculptor (1892-1969)

If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.
— Terry Josephson, 20th/21st-century motivational author

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