"The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it."

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Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.48, Crown Business

Pat Summitt

#Loyalty Quotes #Team Quotes #Heart Quotes

“But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.”
“Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.”

Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.99, Applewood Books
“Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.”
“They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.”
“Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.”

Source : Song: Weightless, Album: Strip Me, 2010
“I stew all night in my own grease.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Virgil Travestie, p. 35, 1922.
“I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.”
“What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.37, Northwestern University Press

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