120 Loyalty quotes for reflection and connection.

My honor is my loyalty.”

Heinrich Himmler

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”

Elbert Hubbard

When you’re putting together a team at work or for a sporting event, favor choosing the people who will see the whole thing through.

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.”

Bainbridge Colby

We still had belief. And I think belief goes further than momentum.”

Jimmy Rollins

You can be loyal to objectives, too — you could call it conviction. Those with conviction have the fuel to keep going no matter what. Keep reading for more perseverance quotes.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.”

Harold Laski

Loyal doesn’t mean endlessly encouraging people. Sometimes, it means we have to be honest and have tough conversations.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.”

German Proverb

Do you know what spurs your loyalty? Write a letter to someone you feel loyal to, and tell that person what originally inspired your loyalty.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.”

President John F. Kennedy

One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.”

T.F. Hodge

Do you receive the same loyalty from others that you give out?

Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him.”

Proverb

A “peck” is a British measure of about two gallons. What happens if two people consume that much salt together? They see what the other is genuinely like when made really, really thirsty.

We have a saying in the movement that we don’t trust anybody over thirty.”

Jack Weinberg

One never knows how loyalty is born.”

Bertram Cooper (Robert Morse), Mad Men

Loyalty in business is a whole topic of its own.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.”

Grace Murray Hopper

We are sure to get opportunities as we show ourselves capable of being trusted.”

Roy L. Smith

Trust is built with consistency.”

Lincoln Chafee

Loyalty is earned, they say. Is it earned, though, in one single act or in a habit of acts?

It is better to be faithful than famous.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”

Confucius

Anyone with core values that align with what Confucius says here can use this quote on a poster or in a motivational collage.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.”

Joyce Maynard

True loyalty is proven not proclaimed.”

Craig Groeschel

This is a great loyalty quote to remind us to live out our convictions, not just state them.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.”

Sinclair Ferguson

No relationship is always pleasant all the time. Loyalty is the commitment to work through the hard times, because the good times are worth it.

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

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.”

Ada Velez-Boardley

What could this quote look like in a wedding announcement?

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”

William P. Young

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

What a poetic way to say, “I’d do anything for you.”

I will love you as an oven loves malfunctioning in the middle of roasting a turkey.”

Lemony Snicket

Loyalty leaves room for humor, too. This quote could be fun in a love letter or a card.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”

William Shakespeare , Macbeth

There cannot be relationships unless there is a commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”

Cornel West,

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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

Maya Angelou

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends and true love.”

Mandy Hale

For more quotes about love, look through these romantic quotes.

The best proof of love is trust.”

Joyce Brothers

This quote is short enough that it can fit onto a banner or into an Instagram story.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built, an absolute trust.”

William Shakespeare , Macbeth

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”

Laurence Sterne

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare , All’s Well That Ends Well

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.”

Andy Andrews

Loyalty requires a commitment to work past the hard times. A loyal heart is always ready to search for solutions.

If you assume that the new — and simply because it's new — is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.”

Criss Jami

Anyone who proclaims loyalty but never commits to a relationship for real isn’t practicing loyalty, just infatuation.

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.”

Neil Strauss

Commitment and loyalty are part of every important relationship. This quote could go well in a poster for ongoing inspiration.

Loyalty...when I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an overused word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.”

Donna Lynn Hope

It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.”

Sondra Faye

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”

Doris Lessing

Keep reading for more quotes about relationships.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer

For anyone who’s been on the betraying side of betrayal, reflection after the fact is critical.

We have to distrust each other. It’s our only defense against betrayal.”

Abraham Lincoln

You never remember who came to the funeral, but you never forget who didn’t.”

Monie Begley

Loyalty is a zero-sum game. A moment’s betrayal wipes loyalty irreversibly away.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect — simply a confession of failure.”

Oscar Wilde

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.”

John Le Carré

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.”

Neil Kinnock

Fake loyalty quotes like this one focus on the political world. How loyal is a representative if campaign promises are only a façade, and loyalty shifts with ever political cue?

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, The Fall

How much have you reflected on the times when you weren’t loyal?

Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.”

Thomas Powers

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.”

Ziad K. Abdelnour

We look for loyalty in others, but how often do we reflect on the loyalty we give? This quote could go in a social post to stop scrolls and leave people thinking.

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.”

Stephenie Meyer , New Moon

You can’t spend your life bribing people, seducing people into committing treason, betraying their own movements, sometimes betraying their own families — and that’s the nice-guy stuff — and come away a healthy, whole person whatever your rationales are.”

John Stockwell

Trust your instincts, and make judgments on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”

David Gemmell

Use this quote in a card of encouragement for someone navigating betrayal by others.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”

Warren Buffett

Faced with the decision to stay loyal or betray someone, remember that loyalty, once undone, is forever undone.

I always think loyalty’s such a tiresome virtue.”

Agatha Christie

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep reading for more quotes about trust.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

William Blake

Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.”

Shannon L. Alder

It was a mistake,’ you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

David Levithan

This quote can be revealing for someone struggling after feeling betrayed. It’s not only the betrayal that hurts. Sometimes, it’s also a feeling of being made a fool.

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.”

Andy Stanley

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

Mineko Iwasaki

This memorable metaphor would be natural to use on a poster.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

Ernest Hemingway

Be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present.”

Stephen Covey

What do you assume about the loyalty of a friend if you hear that friend talking flippantly about others?

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”

George MacDonald

We can “fall in love,” but we can’t “fall in trust.” Loyalty and trust are never an accident.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”

Henry Clay

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.”

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is like an iceberg. The majority of the choices we make are made out of sight of those we’re loyal to.

You can’t be loyal to others if you’re not loyal to your own nature first.”

Tor Seidler

Any lasting loyalty has to be based on our honest understanding of what we want to commit to. Loyalty to ourselves provides the soil that roots of loyalty toward others grow deep in.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.”

Hannah Arendt

If vitality gives a man’s perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.”

Harry Huntt Ransom

You have to trust or you’re only living half a life.”

J.D. Robb

If we never trust anyone, we’ll never be vulnerable. If we’re never vulnerable, we’ll never have real connection.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

Abraham Lincoln

A central part of loyalty, honesty quotes like this one make the requirements for earning loyalty clear.

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.”

Boris Pasternak

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.”

Mark Twain

It isn’t an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don’t know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”

Megan Whalen Turner

Loyalty leaves room to change the system when need be, but only under the ground rules by which we Americans live.”

John A. Hannah

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”

Eric Sevareid

Who could benefit from this quote on a poster? It’s a memorable reminder that making errors — but learning transparently from them — builds trust.

You cannot buy loyalty. You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”

Clarence Francis

What would you call the loyalty that’s “bought,” then dissolves as soon as there’s no more benefit left for the “loyal?”

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

Albert Einstein

Loyalty and trust have to be built in small acts as well as big ones.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

Samuel Johnson

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

I am obliged to be loyal. Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”

President Woodrow Wilson

Loyalty is put to the test when it requires putting our own comfort second to the person or cause we’re loyal to.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”

Mario Puzo

Why not start the collection of family loyalty quotes with one from The Godfather author, Mario Puzo?

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is loyalty. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.”

Philip Armour

We’re more forgiving of family members’ deficits because of loyalty — ours to them, and theirs to us.

You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day by day.”

Jeffrey Gitomer

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends — they will never go out of fashion.”

Niki Taylor

Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.”

Lisa Weed

Anything is possible when you have the right people to support you.”

Misty Copeland

Family loyalty provides a sense of security. It’s with that security that we endeavor to do greater things.

The strength of a country or creed lies in the true sense of loyalty it can arouse in the hearts of its people.”

Louis C. Gerstein

Your country might feel like your family sometimes. Think about how loyalty plays into that relationship.

Loyalty is a major force making for unity in any life — even in the existence of a civilization...it gives point and flavor, most of all meaning, to a life or a culture.”

Harmon M. Gehr

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

Socrates

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

Mitch Albom

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies; do a thing — ‘carry a message to Garcia.’”

Elbert Hubbard

Family loyalty isn’t innate, even though it feels that way sometimes. It has to be taught at home, early on, through repeated acts. That’s why it’s so strong later in life.

Don't make any promises that you can't keep.”

Ann Marie Aguilar

Loyalty isn’t always the easiest path to take. Belonging to a family makes it easier, though, because you’re stuck seeing them at the holidays, anyway.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”

G.K. Chesterton

Any family who shared struggles put their loyalty to the test, and they come out more committed on the other side.

Loyalty is my motto. When I give my word, you can trust me.”

Philippa Gregory

The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you.”

Larry McMurtry

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.”

Jim Butcher

How could this quote look on a poster for the next family gathering?

Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don’t score points for past action.”

Natasha Pulley

That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”

Deb Caletti

Use this quote in a thank you card to a family member who showed support when you really needed it.

Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who have it, give it free of charge.”

Ellen J. Barrier

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

The love of family often translates directly to family loyalty.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

Jane Austen

If you see certain friends as those who are “true,” your loyalty might come in part from the loyalty they’ve already given you.

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.”

Elizabeth Taylor

A little humor goes a long way in a card for a friend. Keep reading for more funny friendship quotes.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.”

Ernie Banks

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest things we can know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

G. Randolf

There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.”

Jennifer Aniston

You can tag your best friend in an Instagram story with this quote.

I don’t like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.”

Carroll Bryant

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”

Josiah Royce

Loyalty isn’t just something to receive. It’s something we find peace in giving, too.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

Oprah Winfrey

Which of your friends have shown the greatest loyalty in the darkest times?

Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.”

Morgan Matson

In thy face I see the map of honor, truth and loyalty.”

William Shakespeare, Henry VI

This Shakespeare quote gives you a flowery way to tell a loyal friend “thank you” in a card or letter.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

Walter Winchell

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

Arnold H. Glasgow

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.”

Maurice R. Franks

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

Elbert Hubbard

This is a perfect quote for a collage collection of photos with a close friend.

A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.”

John Grogan, Marley and Me

We all know that dogs are the most loyal friends out there. Keep readying for more loyal dog quotes.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.”

Seneca

How our friends see us shapes how we see ourselves.

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things ― old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

Francis Bacon

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

Loyalty isn’t only seen at our darkest hours, but at our brightest moments of success. The friend who supports you, whether you need help or help celebrating, is a loyal one.

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.”

Stephen Richards