Welcome to a collection of profound reflections on fidelity. Fidelity, in its essence, embodies loyalty, trustworthiness, and unwavering commitment. It is the bedrock of many relationships, whether they be personal, professional, or spiritual. Throughout history, thinkers, poets, and leaders have pondered the significance of fidelity and its implications in various facets of life.
In this curated compilation, we delve into the rich tapestry of fidelity quotes from a diverse array of voices. From ancient philosophers to modern-day influencers, each quote offers a unique perspective on the importance of staying true to one’s word, honoring commitments, and maintaining steadfast allegiance. As you peruse these insightful words, you’ll uncover timeless wisdom that resonates across cultures and generations.
Below, you’ll find an array of fidelity quotes to inspire, provoke thought, and perhaps even challenge your understanding of this fundamental virtue. Whether you seek guidance on matters of love, friendship, or integrity, these quotes serve as beacons of wisdom, guiding you on the path towards a life governed by trust and loyalty.
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce
Fidelity is the sister of justice. Horace
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. Alan Parsons
Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity? Richard Dawkins
We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost. James F. Amos
I don’t see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is important to me; it’s about honouring that commitment. Greg Wise
Individual participation in the stock market through 401(k)s helped fuel the go-go days of Wall Street in the 1980s and birthed asset management juggernauts like Fidelity, Vanguard, Pimco, BlackRock, and dozens of others. Mary Pilon
Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition. Edward Johnson, III
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. Hannah Arendt
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope
I have to admit to being a music snob. I think, in a parallel universe, I pretty easily could have been Jack Black’s character from ‘High Fidelity,’ working in a record store and snidely commenting on everyone’s purchases. Paul G. Tremblay
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. Gary Hamel
I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody. O. J. Simpson
I just really try to stay focused on what the material is wanting to do. My basic assumption is that no one will ever listen to it anyway. It’s fidelity to the material. That’s my contract: It’s me and the material. And if it connects with other people, I’m thrilled. Max Richter
My interest is in completing an image that is spectacular beyond belief. My fidelity is to the image and the art and not to the bragging rights of making every stroke on every flower. I’m realistic. Kehinde Wiley
Is it possible to reproduce, later in life, the impact that books, records, and films have between the ages of fourteen and seventeen? The periods of my adult life that have been most miserable have been those in which I lost fidelity to what I discovered then. Mark Fisher
I couldn’t vote to confirm any candidate who supports executive amnesty. The attorney general is a top law enforcement officer in this country – the senior person – and anyone who occupies that office must have fidelity to the laws of the United States duly passed, and to the Constitution of the United States. Jeff Sessions
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths. Isaac Newton
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner ’til death do you part.’ Mark Udall
Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea. Pamela Druckerman
‘Attaboys’ help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It’s so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence. Jeffrey Tambor
Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don’t see any point in being together if you’re not being honest, having fun together, and respecting one another. Why would you stay in a relationship otherwise? Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it’s a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. Grace Paley
Men don’t deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It’s a form of fidelity, their deceit. Jean Giraudoux
The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund. Alex Berenson
I do want to make clear that I am personally committed to the integrity of the Department of Justice. Since becoming acting attorney general, I have run the department to the best of my ability, with fidelity to the law and to the Constitution. Matthew Whitaker
The origins of modern marital instability lie largely in the triumph of what many people believe to be marriage’s traditional role – providing love, intimacy, fidelity, and mutual fulfillment. The truth is that for centuries, marriage was stable precisely because it was not expected to provide such benefits. Stephanie Coontz
I didn’t really want to write about music very much in ‘High Fidelity.’ I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with. Nick Hornby
The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals. Cesare Beccaria
Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity – as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it’s certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word. Dani Shapiro
I am in a traditional financial services business – but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information? Abigail Johnson
Everything we do these days – our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism – all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope. James Howard Kunstler
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. Isaac Barrow
Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law. William H. Pryor
There is an animated version of ‘Lazer Team,’ with all the action sequences, that exists. It’s a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it’s one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we’re doing individual shots. Burnie Burns
Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life. Robert Mueller
When you’re recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it’s the best fidelity you can get. Adrian Younge
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. John Fiske
Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board. Edward Johnson, III
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that ‘Lincoln’ is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we’ve actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln’s presidency that’s somewhat original. Tony Kushner
The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal. Zachary Taylor
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. Janet Malcolm
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. Sonia Sotomayor
Fidelity is a gift not a requirement. Lilli Palmer
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux
I think judges have to have the ability to put aside their personal views and rule on the facts of the case with fidelity to the law and the Constitution. Susan Collins
Scandal sells books; fidelity does not. Coretta Scott King
I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2. Clayton M. Christensen
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. Harriet Martineau
Flops are always disappointing, but ‘High Fidelity’ was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half. Will Chase
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed. Marquis de Lafayette
The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law. Eugene Scalia
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. Joseph Story
When an old tape machine makes pitch wobble, some people would say that compromises fidelity and would try to get rid of it. But to me that wobble adds richness, it instantly brings back the feelings you associate with old recordings. Rostam Batmanglij
When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, ‘If I kill someone, would you still love me?’ My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I’m not the only one to ask for that – not love, but absolute fidelity. Claire Denis
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we’re supposed to be monogamous when we’re not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is. Rachel Hunter
The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary. Lajos Kossuth
I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months. Raza Jaffrey
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
People must be confident that a judge’s decisions are determined by the law and only the law. He must be faithful to the Constitution and statutes passed by Congress. Fidelity to the Constitution and the law has been the cornerstone of my life and the hallmark of the kind of judge I have tried to be. Merrick Garland
In my experience, I think there’s must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those. Karan Johar
I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that’s always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that. Scott Turow
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. Thomas Merton
I would expect the family would continue to play a critical role in leading Fidelity. However, the company does not necessarily have to be run day-to-day by a family member. It will be run by the person who is determined to have the right skills and chemistry. Edward Johnson, III
People have been like ‘well you need millions of dollars to buy and sell stocks.’ That sort of idea was thrown out of the window with online brokerages like E-trade and Fidelity, and today, we think that you don’t even need thousands of dollars to trade stocks. Baiju Bhatt
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. Ellen Key
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe
We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy. Abigail Johnson
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. Ezra Taft Benson
When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France – my benefactress – I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence. Toussaint Louverture
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it’s another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. Carla Bruni
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage. George Carey
Nothing scales quite the way a sci-fi feature does, I mean, you can always add more visual effects; you can spend a lot of money on the visual fidelity alone. Burnie Burns
In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. James L. Buckley
Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity. Sam Houston
Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don’t know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology. Stewart Butterfield
The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. Dan Savage
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were. Anthony Kennedy
My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first. Steve Schmidt
I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties. Marquis de Lafayette
For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty. Robert Mueller
I believe in marriage and fidelity. Gloria Vanderbilt
