Since you’re reading my article, I guess we both value loyalty in the same way.
It is one of the most crucial aspects of every relationship, may it be a friendship, family or love interest. Being loyal to a person will always remain a choice!
In fact, I decided to write a post about it, so here it is – a collection of no less than 130 loyalty quotes I collected from various online sources!
As you shall see, it brings you plenty of unique perspectives on loyalty. Read on to discover the most inspirational and thought-provoking quotes!
10 Most Inspirational Loyalty Quotes
1. “If a man asks me for my loyalty…I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty…I will give him my loyalty!” ― John Boyd
2. “I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.” ― David Gemmell
3. “The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.” ― Confucius
4. “Manifest your loyalty in word and deed.” ― Howard W. Hunter
5. “Loyalty isn’t gray. It’s black and white. You’re either loyal completely, or not loyal at all.” — Sharnay
6. “Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty.” — Cicero
7. “Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.” ― Martin Luther
8. “A man is not an orange. You can’t eat the fruit and throw the peel away.” ― Arthur Miller
9. “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
10. “And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.” ― Frank Herbert
Brilliant Quotes About Loyalty And Trust
1. “I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It’s more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.” ― Lloyd Banks
2. “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
3. “Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon; you don’t score points for past action.” — Natasha Pulley
4. “Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.” ― Paulo Coelho
5. “Betrayal and loyalty are two sides of the same coin—one leads to the other. Without trust or loyalty, there is no betrayal. Without betrayal, there is no value for loyalty.”
― Roopesh Tiwari
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6. “It’s better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.” ― Vladimir V. Putin
7. “Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.” ― William T. Sherman
8. “But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,’ said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. ‘It all depends on what you want,’ put in Merry. ‘You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin–to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours–closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
9. “I have seen what power does to people. And I have seen how those who pledge loyalty come to resent their oaths and wish for the destruction of the one who holds them. I was never less free than when I ruled.” ― Holly Black
10. “Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.” ― Edwin Louis Cole
11. “Loyalty can only give.” ― Domenic Brammer
12. “Loyalty has manifested itself as violence throughout history.” ― Marlowe Granados
13. “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
14. “Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.” ―- John Keegan
15. “A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.” ― Robert Benchley
16. “Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” ― Morihei Ueshiba
17. “I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that’s for life.” ― Jerry Lewis
18. “Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It’s the core of what I’m about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It’s a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It’s the biggest factor in everything I do.” ― Tommy Mottola
19. “Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not.” — General Colin Powell
20. “Without loyalty, you won’t accomplish anything.” ― YoungBoy Never Broke Again
21. “Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.” ― Woodrow T. Wilson
22. “If you are still hiding phones in your relationship and claiming privacy, I tell you today you are not serious.” ― Gugu Mofokeng
23. “Loyalty is a decision, a resolution of the soul.” ― Pascal Mercier
24. “It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.” ― Sondra Fayr
25. “My honor is my loyalty.” — Heinrich Himmler
26. “The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they’re your friends, you can do no wrong.” — Dick Van Patten
27. “The first step towards loyalty is trust.” ― Priyanshu Singh
28. “Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who have it, give it free of charge.” ― Ellen J. Barrier
Friendship Loyalty Quotes
1. “Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.” ― Milan Kundera
2. “You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can’t do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn’t say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I’m going to be loyal to my friend because he’s my friend.” ― Jim Brown
3. “A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.” ― Gary Moore
4. “Only on your darkest days you’ll find out who are your true friends.” ― Emihle Nginza
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5. “What I value most in my friends is loyalty.” — David Mamet
6. “Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?” The Prince turned. “Because he’s my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he’d die for me and–and I think I’d die for him. Is that enough?” ― Tamora Pierce
7. “Because there is no power on earth that could make me abandon our friendship. There is no deed you could confess so dark that it would make me forsake you. You said of us once that we were quicksilver and the rest of the world mud. We are alike, shaped by Nature in the same mold, and whatever that signifies, it means that to spurn each other would be to spit in the face of whatever deity has seen fit to bring us together. We are the same, and to leave you would be to leave myself.” ― Deanna Raybourn
8. “When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It’s how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn’t stay loyal to you, they don’t stay your friend for very long.” ― John Cena
9. “True friends don’t come with conditions.” ― Aaron Lauritsen
10. “There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” — Jennifer Aniston
11. “Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments–because they’re willing to brave the shadows with you–and in your greatest moments–because they’re not afraid to let you shine.” ― Nicole Yatsonsky
12. “Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.” — Ernie Banks
13. “The expression that friends are the family you choose, is so powerful, because most people are close with their families, and when you add people into that level of trust, love, and loyalty, it’s a really meaningful thing. The fact you’re actively choosing each other is so beautiful at its core.” — Beanie Feldstein
14. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich
15. “I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don’t ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.” — Lauren Conrad
16. “You should never undermine friendship and loyalty.” — Toyah Willcox
17. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
18. “I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.” — Summer Altice
19. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.” — Jane Austen
20. “The best things in life are free. It is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love… there is your treasure.” ― Neale Donald Walsch
21. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” — Socrates
Loyalty In Relationships Quotes
1. “I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me–they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.” ― Veronica Roth
2. “But what are loyalty and caring really worth?” “To me? Everything.” ― Richelle Mead
3. “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
4. “One never knows how loyalty is born.” ― Robert Morse
5. “Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.” ― Ada Velez-Boardley
6. “We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” ― Cornel West
7. “We may like to know the relevance of loyalty in an ever-shifting world and comprehend the essence of “commitment” in a rapidly altering relationship. In a frame of the “easy come easy go syndrome” many interpretations are brought to mind like “It was all a misunderstanding” or “I liked what the other did, but at this moment I must recognize he didn’t do what I really do like”. (“Was it all worthwhile?”)” ― Erik Pevernagie
8. “Sometimes we’re loyal to more than one thing. When there’s a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.” ― Claudia Gray
9. “I am not blind. I can sense things much better than people with eyesight. I believe in morals and I value my dignity. I’m the truth and I firmly believe in the aspects of honesty and loyalty.” ― Meghna Sodha
10. “A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.” ― Joyce Maynard
11. “You cannot buy loyalty. You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.” — Clarence Francis
12. “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.” ― Haniel Long
13. “One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.” ― T.F. Hodge
14. “Your honesty, love & loyalty can be fooled & used but your silence never.” ― Sonal Takalkar
15. “For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.” ― Lauren Jauregui
16. “The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.” ― Rensis Likert
17. “You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.” ― Jeffrey Gitomer
18. “Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.” ― Taylor Lautner
19. “Loyalty is what makes us trust, Trust is what makes us stay, Staying is what makes us love, and love is what gives us hope.” — Glenn van Dekken
20. “Nothing is more attractive than loyalty.” — Unknown
Quotes On Loyalty And Love
1. “Love and loyalty run deeper than blood.” — Richelle Mead
2. “A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding little tiny things.” ― M.F. Moonzajer
3. “Together we shared a bond not even death would violate.” ― Dee Remy
4. “His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.” ― Emily Giffin
5. “There is no love like loyalty.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
6. “My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.” ― Oscar Wilde
7. “There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.” ― Joanne Harris, Runelight
8. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” — Ann Landers
9. “I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.” — Jennifer Lopez
10. “I love you in the future tense: I will love you, tomorrow and the day after and the day after that until there are no more days left for us.” ― Chuck Wendig
11. “For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.” — Marie de France
12. “When you see couples in long-term relationships and you see them go through good times and bad times, you realize it’s about being committed enough and loving your partner enough to hang in there regardless.” — Candace Cameron Bure
13. “Talk through difficult issues with your partner. Don’t let your partner become a stranger. Don’t use other people to make yourself feel good. Value friendship. Be open-hearted in all the relationships that you choose to have in your life but draw a line and don’t cross it.” ― Donna Goddard
14. “As I’m getting older, I’m really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.” ― Bindi Irwin
15. “Finding loyalty in love has become difficult, Love itself has lost its true essence.” ― Janid Kashmiri
16. “We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they’re capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don’t care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they’ve done wrong.” — Kazuo Ishiguro
17. “Real love has little to do with falling. It’s a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, and most people are too selfish or too scared to bother. Very few reach the critical point in their relationship that summons the attention of the light and the dark, that place where they will make a commitment to love no matter what obstacles-or temptations- appear in their path.” — Stacey Jay
18. “Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, but you and I know what this world can do. So let’s make our steps clear so the other may see. And I’ll wait for you…should I fall behind wait for me.” ― Bruce Springsteen
19. “Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.” — Hanif Kureishi
20. “Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.” — Minna Antrim
Quotes About Family Loyalty
1. “Your loyalty to friends and family should have no limit, although it may be expressed in ways that others cannot understand.” ― Bohdi Sanders
2. “My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.” — Taylor Swift
3. “When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.” — Phil McGraw
4. “I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.” ― Jandy Nelson
5. “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” — Mario Puzo
6. “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.” ― Haniel Long
7. “Her hands flew to her mouth. ‘Are we even twins?’ Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. ‘I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.” ― Michael Scott
8. “Can I tell you what I think?” She nods. “You have a strong sense of loyalty to your friends and family and that’s why you’re very hurt when you’re let down. You give out love and rightfully expect back the same love in return. But that’s not because you are sensitive, it’s because you have a big heart so when you love someone, you give them all of you and it hurts if they don’t do the same.” ― Elicia Roper
9. “Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.” — Thomas Cochrane
Eye-opening Fake Loyalty Quotes
1. “It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.” ― Jennifer Haigh
2. “Not all your family or friends will be happy when you succeed, nor will everyone be saddened when you lose; so, be careful with whom you’re sharing your personal business.” ― Kianu Starr
3. “Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.” ― Paulo Coelho
4. “Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.” ― Seneca
5. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King
6. “My father wrote: “Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it.” ― Emily Thorne
7. “Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.” ― J.E.B. Spredemann
8. “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.” ― Albert Camus
9. “If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.” ― Jacqueline Carey
10. “I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.” ― Richard E. Grant
11. “Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it still hurts if someone isn’t loyal to you.” ― C.C. Hunter
12. “My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.” ― Stephenie Meyer
13. “Sometimes, no matter how hard we try for someone and hope that they will get better in time – they never do. Abusive relationships shouldn’t have a key to your chambers of heart. Hold your key and keep it close. Don’t end up getting addicted to such pain or human beings – for that matter. You might not be Thor but they can surely be Loki & hold you prisoner to their trickster nature.” ― Sijdah Hussain
14. “Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can’t but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity…. Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.” — Eric Felten
15. “A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.” ― Lewis B. Smedes
16. “It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It’s probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.” – John Scott
17. “When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.” — Andy Andrews
18. “Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” — German proverb
19. “A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
20. “Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.” — Scarlet Koop
21. “Some people aren’t loyal to you… They are loyal to their need of you… Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.” — Unknown
22. “Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean that they will treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean that they will value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.” — Trent Shelton
Final Thoughts
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