Sayings about Loyalty
The best way to keep loyalty in a man’s heart is to keep money in his purse. ~ Irish Proverbs
Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty. ~ Traditional Proverb
The most faithful mirror is an old friend. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. ~ Jewish Proverb
There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ~ American Proverbs
In peace be faithful; in war be valiant. ~ New Zealander Proverb
No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
Great villainy is often called loyalty.~ Japanese Proverbs
The unfaithful woman has remorse, the faithful one has regret. ~ Chinese Proverb
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ~ Bible
The powerful are never faithful. ~ Chinese Proverb
Duty before devotion. ~ Mexican Proverbs
Quotations about Loyalty
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty. ~ Cicero
The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back Satisfaction and peace. ~ Michael Jordan
You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things. ~ Clarence Francis
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde
The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything. ~ Frank Robinson
Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life. ~ Napoleon Hill
The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair. ~ Eric Felten
You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. ~ Jeffrey H. Gitomer
Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. ~ Josiah Royce
The only people I owe my loyalty to are those who never made me question theirs. ~ Author Unknown
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. ~ Robert Benchley
A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ~ George William Curtis
A man is not an orange. You can’t eat the fruit and throw the peel away. ~ Arthur Miller
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ~ Ellen Key
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him. ~ Brother Lawrence
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
Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful. ~ Ida R. Wylie
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. ~ Hannah Arendt
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. ~ Norman Thomas
Matrimonial devotion doesn’t seem to suit her notion. ~ W. S. Gilbert
When put to the test, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ~ Elbert Hubbard
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Staying with someone that doesn’t appreciate you isn’t loyalty, it’s stupidity. ~ Author Unknown
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
Loyalty gives traitors opportunity. ~ Seneca
To be loyal to our country is the duty of every man; to be loyal to ourselves is the first trust of manhood; but the most essential of all loyalty is to be loyal to Him who created us. ~ E. P. Day
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. ~ Neil Kinnock
Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty. ~ Joanne Kathleen Rowling
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t. ~ Sacha Guitry
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. ~ Robert H. Jackson
Loyalty binds me. ~ Motto
Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below. ~ Bob Sorge
Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. ~ James Parton
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. ~ Mario Puzo
You can’t buy loyalty, you can only invest in it. ~ Ronny M. Cole
I always think loyalty’s such a tiresome virtue. ~ Agatha Christie
You’ve got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up. ~ Donald T. Regan
Birds of a feather flock together. ~ Author Unknown
Always laugh heartily at the jokes your boss tells, it maybe a loyalty test. ~ Author Unknown
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. ~ Joe Paterno
Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Independence – is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. ~ Mark Twain
Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you’re getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities. ~ Charles Jones
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ~ Colin Powell
Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails. ~ Josiah Royce
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. ~ Grace Murray Hopper
Loyalty to an unjust cause is a perversion of honor. ~ Brian Herbert
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
Men are only as loyal as their options. ~ Bill Maher
It is better to be faithful than famous. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use. ~ Paulo Coelho
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~ Mark Twain
The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you. ~ Larry Mcmurtry
Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. ~ Confucius
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. ~ Woodrow Wilson Loyalty isn’t grey. It’s black and white. You’re either loyal completely, or not loyal at all. ~ Sharnay
It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be. ~ Brigitte Bardot
Camerado, I give you my hand; I give you my love more precious than money; I give you myself before preaching or law. Will you give me yourself? ~ Walt Whitman
Constancy… that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. ~ Lord Byron
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ~ Alexander Pope