Loyalty Quotes, Sayings about being loyal

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old loyalty quotes, loyalty sayings, and loyalty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Loyalty isn't grey. It's black and white. You're either loyal completely, or not loyal at all.

SHARNAY, attributed, A-Thousand-Words

The only people I owe my loyalty to are those who never made me question theirs.

ANONYMOUS

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

MARIO PUZO, The Family

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

CLARENCE FRANCIS, attributed, Michigan Business Review, May 1956

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

LARRY MCMURTRY, Streets of Laredo

We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

CORNEL WEST, Breaking Bread

If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.

ERIC FELTEN, Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

Staying with someone that doesn't appreciate you isn't loyalty, it's stupidity.

ANONYMOUS

Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.

BOB SORGE, Loyalty: The Reach of the Noble Heart

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, Shield of Thunder

I'm very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don't look at other moms.

GARRY SHANDLING, attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty.

CICERO, attributed, Day's Collacon

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.

ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman

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

GRACE MURRAY HOPPER, interview, 60 Minutes, Mar. 6, 1983

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

ERIC FELTEN, Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius

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, Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

VERONICA ROTH, Allegiant

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, Ode to Mazzini

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